On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 20:45:40 GMT, A@concerned.user wrote:

>My mistake using pkgadd instead of patchadd ... but a new challenge awaits
>you! I used patchadd as you suggested and received this output:
>root@galaxy root # l
>total 32856
>drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 512 Oct 28 15:46 ./
>drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 1.0K Oct 28 19:19 ../
>drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 512 May 15 1996 103351-02/
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 6.7M Oct 28 14:31 103351-02.tar
>-rw-r--r-- 1 endsley staff 9.3M Oct 28 14:21
>SDS-4_2_1_108693_06-solsparc-03-aug-2001.zip
>drwxr-xr-x 3 root other 512 Oct 28 16:04 packages/
>root@galaxy root # patchadd 103351-02
>
>Checking installed patches...
>One or more patch packages included in
>103351-02 are not installed on this system.
>
>Patchadd is terminating.
>
>What other software needs to be installed? ssaadm is already installed in
>/usr/sbin. When I installed Solaris 9
>on this machine I made sure I installed the whole end-user and OEM packages
>trying to make the array happy.
>I don't have access to the original software that came with the array, on
>I'm only finding sparse help at sun.com

What are you trying to accomplish? I noticed from your original post
the following:

The following packages are available:
1 SUNWssadv.1 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
(sparc) 1.0
2 SUNWssadv.2 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
(sparc) 2.1,REV=1.0
3 SUNWssadv.20 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
(sparc) 2.0

Are you attempting to install Solaris 2.3 (i.e. the Solaris 5.3
component) patches on a Solaris 9 system?

As to the software you can use Veritas Volume Manager with a
SparcStorage Array. The SSA is licensed to use Veritas...at least it
was with older versions.

Josh