On Mon, 19 May 2008 22:45:48 +0200 (CEST) "dick hoogendijk" <dick at nagual.nl> wrote: > mary ding wrote: > > Dick, what are your zones configuration and we need > > your /etc/vfstab to figure out what is going on ?? > One thing though: /var/sadm is appr. 6.2GB > That's a lot for email ;-) > What can I do about this, apart from tar.7zip it?
I never received an answer to this last message. However, I'm pleased to say that I managed to update from s10u3 to s10u5, including my zones with LU. But, doing this I had to trick LU, because it did not work with zones as you know. [1] I moved away the /etc/zones files to a safe place. This tricked solaris into believing it has no zones. [2] I created an ABE with lucreate -c old -n new /:c1d0s0:ufs This worked perfectly! No errors! [3] I dumped the "/zones" slice to a new slice (c1d0s4) [4a] I mounted c1d0s0, moved the /etc/zones files back into place and unmounted the slice. [4b] I changed /etc/vfstab to reflect the new /zones slice c1d0s4 on c1d0s0 ** after all the new root should know its former zones, right?** [5] I created a lofi mount for my s10u5 iso file (no dvd needed) [6] I ran "luupdate -u -n new -s /mnt/cdrom ** The system upgraded perfectly, INCLUDING the (old) zones!** So now, I had an old BE and a new one, but it hadn't been created by LU for 100% => luactivate did not succeed. But that was not a problem. It was easy enough to change the /boot/grub/menu.lst on the first bootable harddrive to reflect the new ABE on c1d0s0 being available. Choosing this ABE after an init 6 gave me an updated system (0508) including upgraded zones. Everything worked flawlessly, except for LU. Of course I immediately tried to make a third ABE from within s10u5. Including my zones. After all, this is supposed to work, according to SUN. Well, it did NOT. The same errors as before (u3). ** Conclusion: LU with zones sucks big time.** Having found this little trick above gives me a little reassurance that the next major update can be performed on my system too. And that's what really counts. Not having to reinstall the zones. Pppffft. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++
