Solaris 8 -- 9 upgrade

We are in the process of upgrading solaris 8 to 9 (Sun Sparc). When installing the patches (patch# 121430), we are getting an error message "patchadd 121430-10
Checking installed patches...
One or more patch packages included in
121430-10 are not installed on this system
Patchadd is terminating"
Can somebody help me with this? Its very urgent. I appreciate any help of yours
Regards,
Vj

We are in the process of upgrading solaris 8 to 9
(Sun Sparc). When installing the patches (patch#What patches? You don't upgrade an OS by applying patches.
ckages included in
121430-10 are not installed on this systemRead this message. It's very clear. You are trying to apply a patch to something that is not there. Just ignore this message.

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