[pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support

2011-10-19 Thread Martin Paul
Solaris 9 will transition to Vintage Support at the end of October. This means that any Solaris 9 patches (or patch revisions) released from Nov 1st onwards will require Vintage support level. Details on Gerry Haskins' blog:

Re: [pca] Setting up PCA patch server

2011-10-19 Thread Thomas Gouverneur
Hi all, I've thought about this kind of problem some weeks ago and figured out that on this topic, what I wanted from PCA was simple: Exactly the same as SUNWtlp was doing for me: - Bundle generation with frozen recommended set of patches - HTML Reports - Live Upgrade Friendly Bundle (with

Re: [pca] Setting up PCA patch server

2011-10-19 Thread Martin Paul
Lisa, Others have already described various options you have. As for my 2 cent: Take a look at the PCA documentation, especially the parts about setting up a local patch server (in your situation, a PCA local caching proxy might suit best, and there are detailed step-by-step instructions in

Re: [pca] Recommended patches and PCA

2011-10-19 Thread Martin Paul
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for the background information and the confirmation that --minimal works for you. I decided to make it official now, and have added documentation to the development release of PCA now. Without gushing too much we have found PCA too useful to not use. It simplifies and

Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support

2011-10-19 Thread Rajiv Gunja
@my company we weighed our options. it made more sense for us to move to version 10 than pay for extra support for version maintenance. Ggr On Oct 19, 2011 8:11 AM, Chuck Floyd ch...@cmfloyd.com wrote:

Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support

2011-10-19 Thread Filip Francis
Yes, Worked with them several times. Was not really a good experience but he could be that they did not understand the T3 storage systems here in Belgium. Hospital was down for more then a day before i came and started the reinstallation of the whole system because they managed to screw it

Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support

2011-10-19 Thread Jeff Wieland
Fred wrote: We did the same thing. I do miss how fast Solaris 8 would reboot on our old V100's - down and up in 90 seconds. With Solaris 10 it takes about 4 minutes. Worry not, Solaris 11's fast reboot can boot a host as quickly as a zone. Default behaviour for a reboot is