Upgrading Sol 10 u3 x86 -- Sol 10 u6 x86 without using LU/Live Upgrade ?

Hi all,
I've got a group of SunFire x4200 M2 hosts currently running Solaris 10 x86 u3, fully patched. They are using the internal LSI Logic SAS controller in a RAID1 config for the disk environment.
When they were originally installed, the thought of running up an SVM mirror wasn't on the cards for our SE who installed them - nor was the potential for using Live Upgrade.
It occurs to me, that whilst Sun will release and continue to release patches for u3, I need to actually migrate to u6 in order to get certain functionality (i.e - new ZFS genesis, iscsitadm/iscsiadm, root zpools). I don't believe this will be "patched in" later for older versions, will it?
How can I cleanly upgrade my hosts without losing any config data or information? Is it even possible? These are production hosts, so I want to do this in the safest way possible. Many have told me I can simply slip in the Sol 10 update 6 media - and boot from it, then find that it will detect the old OS, but I am a little skeptical.
If someone could point me in the right direction here, that would be appreciated!
Thanks.
z

The installer polls many different things on the existing installation. If any of them aren't exactly right, it won't offer the upgrade option, and it won't give you any hints about what tests didn't pass. (Did I find a root slice, is there a root filesystem on it? Does the /etc/vfstab on that partition make sense? Do I have the space in those filesystems to upgrade? ...)
The most common ones to fail have to do with disk layout. It's possible to move /var around, or have an extra partition mounted that the installer doesn't realize is irrelevant for the upgrade.
If that's not the problem, it's very difficult to pin down. At one level, most of the installer logic is just scripts that you could read to understand the logic, but it's difficult to tell which script is running when, so following the logic is not easy.
Darren

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