Is solaris 8 to solaris 10 upgrade possible

Hello,
I read on a post not on Sun that you have to upgrade to solaris 9 from 8 before upgrading to 10. Is that true? I do not know if I am doing a live upgrade so consider this question apart from live upgrade.
Thank you

What do you mean by your statement "and then if it works then place the new layout onto the primary disk and recreate the mirrors.". Do you mean physically put the second disk in the primary disk slot and a new disk in the second slot and build mirrors?
No. To perform a LiveUpgrade while replacing disks, you'd do these steps:
- Break the mirrors on the secondary disk, and remove any meta-databases stored there
- Replace the secondary disk physically with the new one
- Partition the secondary disk with your new desired slice layout
- Run LiveUpgrade and install the new OS and filesystems onto the secondary disk
- Reboot and test the new OS
- If everything goes well, then add your meta-database copies to the secondary disk
- Remove the old boot environment (BE)
- Remove mirrors from the primary disk
- Remove the meta-databases from the primary disk
- Physically replace the primary disk
- Copy the partition table from your secondary disk to the primary disk
- Recreate all mirrors
- Setup the root device for booting, and test that as well.
It's a lot of steps, but it should be straight-forward and it's documented quite well in the LiveUpgrade manuals.

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