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"Andre van Eyssen" <nntempt@purplecow.org> wrote in message 
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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.
Andre
Thanks for great reply.
Unfortunately neither of my machines will handle Solaris 10.
Read the PCA page and it looks very good.
I do not have a burner on either machine so would have to use PCA on each 
Solaris machine to create the list of patches for each, then download them 
on my XP machine for burning and subsequent installation off the burnt cd 
onto each Solaris box.
Couple of reservations, the Sun liciencing and my competence to install and 
run PCA.
Still having network/internet problems on each machine so have to solve that 
first.
Pity Sun patch system does not work like AIX ie #oslevel -r procedure.
Will plug on. Sure I will be back with more questions.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Basil