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Solaris 10 Live upgrade steps

  Steps for Solaris 10 Live Upgrade  Solaris Live Upgrade significantly reduces downtime caused by an operating system upgrade  by allowing the system administrator to upgrade the operating system, or install a Flash  Archive, while the system is in operation. The Live Upgrade process involves creating a dupli-  cate of the running environment and upgrading that duplicate. The current running environ-  ment remains untouched and unaffected by the upgrade.... Prepare the disk slice and partition for live upgrade: disk 1 Partition: c0d0s0    / c0d0s1    swap c0d0s2    backup disk 2 partition: c0d1s0    /(i'll use it to copy root) the partition on second disk (/copy root) is same size as the root (/) partition and it must not appear in use in “/etc/vfstab”. This example explains how to upgrade a Solaris 10 10/08 system to the Solaris 10 5/09 release. Solaris Live Upgrade has many capab...