Solaris upgradaion from 6 to 8

Hi , can any one help me to proceed solaris 8 pre upgradation and post upgradation rules to be performed .
Thankx for the help.
konda

Hi,
I am trying to downgrade Solaris from 9 to 8 on a
Sunblade 150 machine.The system handbook will show the compatible OS versions for a machine.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunBlade150/SunBlade150.html
I insert the Solaris CD-ROM and press Stop-A, then
enter:
boot cdrom
but instead of going through to the installation I
get the following message:
boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix
Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix] :There are different releases of Solaris 8. Which are you using? Note that 02/02 is the minimum for this hardware.
Darren

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