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On 2007-07-17, Basil Holloway <farl7FAKE@bigpond.com> wrote:

> Have two Solaris 9 Systems, a Sparc and an X86, I would like to update to 
> the latest Solaris 9 edition but cannot fathom out which patch to download 
> for each system.
> Here are I think the correct links
> X86
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/zos-x9
> Sparc
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/zos-s9
>
> Would like to burn to CD for future use so do not want to do an online 
> update.
>
> Assistance appreciated.

To be honest, the best way of patching up your systems at this point is to 
use PCA - "Patch Check Advanced". This tool will automatically grab all the 
relevant patches. You can ask it to save a copy of everything it downloads, 
too, so you can burn them to a CD for next time. 

http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/

This way, you only download the patches you need. You'll also get patches that 
don't make it into the 9_Recommended cluster - it's like installing the latest 
Solaris 9 and then patching from there.

If the machines are workstations or non-production hosts, I'd consider 
grabbing a Solaris 10 install and upgrading them though. The new features in 
Solaris 10 are very tempting.


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