On Mon, 12 May 2008 11:53:37 +0200 Gerard Henry <gerard.henry at free.fr> wrote:
> Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > What if I do a Live Upgrade of my S10u3 to S10u5 *without* the > > zones. (I just temporarely remove the /etc/zones/<files>). I think > > this upgrade should work then. > i think the problem is rather related to zones on zfs, isn't it? No. I don't use zfs. All slices are on ufs. > did you try to detach all your zones before upgrading? did you use a > jumpstart server? I did not detach the zones. As I understand they will not be upgraded then. I tried to install (upgrade) from DVD. I should have gotten an upgrade option... I once tried to setup a jumpstart server. I could not get it done. Don't remember why not. Something to do with the dhcp/netboot settings I did not understand it right. My conclusion at the time was that setting up a jumpstart server was too much for me on my simple home network with just a few solaris machines behind a D-Link router, dhcp server, firewall. > > As a third step I do *another* Live Upgrade *with* zones from S10u5 > > to S10u5. Is it possible this approach could work? Or am I > > dreaming..;-) > > i don't think it's relevant. If you detach zones, there are chance > that you can't attach them on the new S10U5, due to patches and > packages differences I once did this trick on an older solaris version (on another machine) at the time zones were not supported at all. I "removed" the files from /etc/zones and upgraded the machine normally. Then I put the zone files back on the new machine and it started OK (even the zones worked as far as I could tell at that moment). That's why I thought of this kind of trick. Not knowing if it could still work on more modern s10 updates. Now, zones can be detached. They could not back then. Problem is, I'm talking about a production server. So I wouldn't want to experiment too much. I do want to go to u5 if possible. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++
