This article describes the process for using Solaris Live Upgrade to upgrade from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10 05/08 or later releases.

The Solaris 10 05/08 release media (and subsequent Solaris 10 Updates) were compressed using a different compression utility than previous Solaris 10 Releases, which all used bzip2 compression. As a result of this, in order to upgrade to Solaris 05/08 (or later Solaris Releases) using Solaris Live Upgrade, the live system (on which luupgrade is actually running), must have p7zip installed. p7zip was backported to Solaris 9 in patch format, but for Solaris 8 there is no similar patch available.

Follow these steps to download and install the p7zip package.

To upgrade from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10 05/08 (or later Solaris Releases) using Live Upgrade, a special download (s8p7zip.tar.gz) has been made available.  This file is attached to this solution (see below).

The download consists of 3 Sun FreeWare packages, a wrapper script and an installer script.

Note:  the installer script must be run as root.

1. Download the file s8p7zip.tar.gz which can be found at the bottom at this page.

2. To unpack the download run gunzip

# gunzip s8p7zip.tar.gz

then run tar

# tar -xvf s8p7zip.tar
s8p7zip/
s8p7zip/install.sh
s8p7zip/p7zip
s8p7zip/README
s8p7zip/SMClgcc.Z
s8p7zip/SMCmktemp.Z
s8p7zip/SMCp7zip.Z
s8p7zip/LEGAL_LICENSE.TXT

3. When s8p7zip.tar.gz is unpacked, change in to the s8p7zip directory and run the install.sh script

# cd s8p7zip
# ./install.sh
installing SMCp7zip
installing SMClgcc
installing SMCmktemp
Testing p7zip utility ...
Test successful.
p7zip utility has been installed successfully.

Three packages are installed into /opt/SMCp7zip:

• SMClgcc

• SMCmktemp

• SMCp7zip

The installer then creates symlinks from /opt/SUNW7za/bin/mktemp & /opt/SUNW7za/bin/7za to /usr/bin and subsequently installs a wrapper script at /usr/bin/p7zip.

Finally a test is carried out to validate the install.

4. The complete procedure for upgrading from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10/05 (or later) is:

1. Install s8p7zip.tar.gz

2. Follow the full instructions for standard Solaris 8 live upgrade at < Solution: 206844 >.
   

Note: You must install the Live Upgrade packages (as listed in Step 2) and all relevant patches listed under the “Solaris[TM] 8 Operating System for SPARC” section of this document.

Solaris 8
Solaris 10 05/08 and above
p7zip

s8p7zip.tar.gz