Patching Solaris 10
848821May 11 2011 — edited Jul 28 2011Hello,
I'd like to install the latest patch cluster on my Solaris 10 SPARC server. My configuration is the following: 2 disks with slices mirrored via SVM. I have no spare slice for Live Upgrade. I wonder if I could make patching without Live Upgrade in a following way:
1. From disk1 unmirror disk2 all slices (metadetach)
2. Perform instalation of the patch cluster on disk1
In case of success:
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2.1. From disk1 mirror disk2 all slices (metattach)
In case of failure do rollback:
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2.2. Boot from CDROM
3. Mount slice0 (root slice) of disk2:
# mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 /mnt
4. Make the slice0 of disk2 the root slice
# metaroot -R /mnt /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0
5. Go to OBP
# init 0
6.Boot the server from disk2
7. Do mirroring again
Do Oracle recommend this. If not how should I do the installation of patch cluster to have possibility to do rollback.
Thanks and Regards,
P