[SunHELP] Solaris Sparc 2.6 Upgrade to 2.8

[Mike's List]

Highly recommend initial install instead of upgrade, as it's quicker and
more "sure" than upgrade.  You backup everything on the 2.6 machine, i.e.
users' data, software...and do initial install.


- Mike


On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 jkennedy at energis.co.uk wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Have any of you seen the following errors on attempting to upgrade from 2.6 to
> 2.8:
> 
> The Solaris Version (Solaris 2.6) on slice c0t0d0s0 cannot be upgraded.
> 
> A file system listed in the file system table (vfstab) could not be mounted.
> 
> I've managed to get the install to work (but stopped just short of installation
> as I want to upgrade), but I could only get the install to work if I came out of
> the upgrade process (F5) mounted a disk slice manually to /tmp/jdk and then ran
> suninstall.
> 
> Ideas, pointer would be gratefully recieved.
> 
> Cheers, Jake
> 
> 
> 
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