[SunHELP] solaris10: dumb question...

[velociraptor]

On 12/3/05, fabio at crearium.com <fabio at crearium.com> wrote:
> > abbey wrote:
> >> hello all,
> >> this may sound like a dumb question but where can get
> >> pathces/updates for solaris10?  it seems as though
> >> everywhere i go you need some sort of an account or
> >> agreemnet or are those not available to everyone.
> >> also i am having difficulty finding packages for it
> >> too.  am i missing something?  thank you for your
> >> patience.
> >
> > You can always obtain the latest recommended patch cluster from
> > www.sun.com.
> >
>
> For easy update, download the update manager at:
>
> http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=42e02045

I can second this recommendation.  I've started using smpatch,
and it makes things much easier.  The Sol 8 boxes still take for-
ever, and I haven't gotten Sun to track down the local server
option for Solaris 9, yet.  But all-in-all it's an improvement over
DL'ing the clusters.

=Nadine=