Hi!
I'm searching any suggestion about upgrade solaris 8 to solaris 10.

All about this procedure.
Problem?
Tips?

People said to erase all the mirror (disksuite).
People said to install all the reccomended patch under solaris 8 and then
migrate.
People said.........


Many thks for the help! I have some problem to do this procedure....

Jup wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm searching any suggestion about upgrade solaris 8 to solaris 10.
>
> All about this procedure.
> Problem?
> Tips?
>
> People said to erase all the mirror (disksuite).
> People said to install all the reccomended patch under solaris 8 and then
> migrate.
> People said.........
>
"People" say all kinds of things. Some know what they are talking about
and some haven't a clue! Be sure you understand what you are being
told! Read and understand the documentation! READ and UNDERSTAND the
documentation!!

Whatever else you do or don't do, make a backup of your boot disk. It's
good
practice to back up the entire system. Make two copies and send one off
site. 99% of upgrades are done without problems. The other 1% can
cost your your job and any hope of getting good references! If an
upgrade goes wrong, you have a backup. and are able to restore it, the
only harm done is that you have wasted some time. If you have never
done an upgrade before, try to get someone who has to help you.

In article <4600845A.9000709@comcast.net>,
"Richard B. gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:

> Jup wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I'm searching any suggestion about upgrade solaris 8 to solaris 10.
> >
> > All about this procedure.
> > Problem?
> > Tips?
> >
> > People said to erase all the mirror (disksuite).
> > People said to install all the reccomended patch under solaris 8 and then
> > migrate.
> > People said.........
> >
> "People" say all kinds of things. Some know what they are talking about
> and some haven't a clue! Be sure you understand what you are being
> told! Read and understand the documentation! READ and UNDERSTAND the
> documentation!!
>
> Whatever else you do or don't do, make a backup of your boot disk. It's
> good
> practice to back up the entire system. Make two copies and send one off
> site. 99% of upgrades are done without problems. The other 1% can
> cost your your job and any hope of getting good references! If an
> upgrade goes wrong, you have a backup. and are able to restore it, the
> only harm done is that you have wasted some time. If you have never
> done an upgrade before, try to get someone who has to help you.

I would throw in the recommendation to practice on a test system that as
closely resembles the system he intends to upgrade.

Josh

Josh McKee wrote:
> In article <4600845A.9000709@comcast.net>,
> "Richard B. gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Jup wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>I'm searching any suggestion about upgrade solaris 8 to solaris 10.
>>>
>>>All about this procedure.
>>>Problem?
>>>Tips?
>>>
>>>People said to erase all the mirror (disksuite).
>>>People said to install all the reccomended patch under solaris 8 and then
>>>migrate.
>>>People said.........
>>>
>>
>>"People" say all kinds of things. Some know what they are talking about
>>and some haven't a clue! Be sure you understand what you are being
>>told! Read and understand the documentation! READ and UNDERSTAND the
>>documentation!!
>>
>>Whatever else you do or don't do, make a backup of your boot disk. It's
>>good
>>practice to back up the entire system. Make two copies and send one off
>>site. 99% of upgrades are done without problems. The other 1% can
>>cost your your job and any hope of getting good references! If an
>>upgrade goes wrong, you have a backup. and are able to restore it, the
>>only harm done is that you have wasted some time. If you have never
>>done an upgrade before, try to get someone who has to help you.
>
>
> I would throw in the recommendation to practice on a test system that as
> closely resembles the system he intends to upgrade.
>
> Josh

I'll second that. If you have a test system, upgrade it first. That
should tell you a lot about the problems you may encounter when you
upgrade your production system. Ideally, the test system will run on
similar but perhaps slower hardware. This is one of many good reasons
to have such a test system.

"Jup" <nospam@nospam.com> writes:

>I'm searching any suggestion about upgrade solaris 8 to solaris 10.

>All about this procedure.
>Problem?
>Tips?

Just start a standard Solaris install and at some point it will
ask you whether you want to do an upgrade (if your OS is not
damaged beyond recognition)

>People said to erase all the mirror (disksuite).

Solaris 10 upgrades support mirrors.

>People said to install all the reccomended patch under solaris 8 and then
>migrate.

That's only required for liveupgrade. Ordinary upgrade does not care
about the patchlevel of the system.

Casper
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