[SunHELP] Solaris Sparc 2.6 Upgrade to 2.8

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Hi All,

Thanks to those that responded, I've had quite a few of you saying the same
thing, the upgrade from 2.6 to 2.8 isn't all that reliable.  I had a quick chat
with Sun and it seems that they haven't come up with anything new regarding our
upgrade problem, that seems to lend weight to all of your comments that stated a
fresh install was needed.

So, I'm going ahead with a brand spanking new install.  What fun.

Cheers, Jake


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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:01:04 -0600 (CST)
From: "Mike's List" <mikelist at sky.net>
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Solaris Sparc 2.6 Upgrade to 2.8
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org

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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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:47:52 +0100
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Solaris Sparc 2.6 Upgrade to 2.8
From: Michael Karl <mk at lexcom-net.de>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org

Hi Jake,

Mike is right ... make a full new installation.

I'd tried several times a upgrade ... afterwards no machine had worked fine.

Now I install Solaris 8 on a second disc and than copy all necessary files
from the Sol-2.6- to the Sol-2.8-disc, test every thing and bring the new
Sol-2.8-installation with ufsdump, ufsrestore back to the original first
disc. (Don't forget installboot)

Michael

> Von: jkennedy at energis.co.uk
> Antworten an: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Datum: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:45:02 +0000
> An: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Betreff: [SunHELP] Solaris Sparc 2.6 Upgrade to 2.8
>
>
>
> 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