Solaris 10 upgrade from U3 to U8

Question

Hi Gurus,
I need to upgrade solaris 10 from U3 to U8, we tried a unsuccessful failure
after creating a boot environment when we tried to upgrade from DVD 10/09
with command
luupgrade -u BE -s /cdrom
it complaint about a one file in some path (not sure the exact file name)
/cdrom/SOLARIS_10/TOOLS/BOOT/PLATFORM/SUN4U
has anyone see this error before and
when we tried to upgrade from DVD directly with command
ok>boot cdrom -upgrade
it never asked me if i want to upgrade and do a fresh installation it just installed fresh OS.
any help is much apprecited.
BR,
Kapil+

Answer 1

With latest version of live upgrade you need to add -k <sysidcfg file> to upgrade line. The following is the
luupgrade command line that I most recently used
luupgrade -u -n <ABE name> -k /root/sysidcfg -s /cdrom/cdrom0
I have attached file that explains entries in sysidcfg.
Below is the sysidcfg file that I created for this servers.
root@xxxx # cat sysidcfg
name_service=DNS
domain_name=xx.xx.xx
name_server=xx.xx.xx.xx
network_interface=ge0 { hostname=xxx
ip_address=xx.xx.xx.xx
netmask=255.255.255.0
protocol_ipv6=no
default_route=xx.xx.xx.xx}
keyboard=US-English
system_locale=en_US
timezone=US/Central
terminal=sun-cmd
system_locale=C
Make sure that you get on the console when you reboot to the new OS. I always get some dumb question, such as "What is the terminal type?", when I upgrade the os.
You probably want to do an ls /cdrom (or whatever) and you should get something similiar to the following:
$ ls
Copyright boot
GPL_LGPL_Source_Offer.txt installer
Solaris_10 platform
Edited by: Paisley on Dec 15, 2010 8:19 AM