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Craig Ian Dewick wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade a machine (Ultra 60) from Solaris 9 HW 12/03 to HW 
> 9/05 using CD-R copies of the Solaris 9 CD's burnt from ISO's downloaded 
> from Sun and extracted out the downloaded zipfiles
> 
> The Solaris 9 1 of 2 CD-R is fine, but the second one isn't doing 
> anything and I've burnt a second disk from the second ISO image to 
> compare, and it's giving the same behaviour. I've tried different CD-ROM 
> drives, also with the same result. Not sure what's causing the second CD 
> to not be scanned, but I'm not in a position to do much more now since I 
> start work at 3.30 pm (bit over half hour!).
> 
> I realise it's a risk, but I've just skipped installing the extra 
> software off the second CD so I can reboot the machine and see what 
> happens. I know of some problems that are pre-existing (mainly related 
> to Perl - need to upgrade that to 5.8.7).
> 
> I'll have a go at upgrading the machine to Solaris 10 tonight using the 
> set of 4 CD-ROM's.
> 
> That aside, is there a way to get Solaris to re-try installing the 
> software it needs off the second Solaris 9 CD? When I rebooted the 
> system the kernel reported SCSI timeouts trying to talk to the CD-ROM 
> drive - perhaps something in the ISO for the second Solaris 9 CD makes 
> the drive get into an unknown state which Sun's 'glm' driver can't 
> understand...
> 
> In any case, the machine is running but some things are broken since I 
> tried to build the new version of Perl (using CPAN) and gcc's giving 
> linker errors. That probably means one of the packages on the second 
> Solaris 9 CD contains libraries that the linker is expecting to find. hmm
> 
> Craig.
> 
the second cd is usually scanned after the reboot, before you are able 
to login. its filesets are then loaded, and a further reboot follows.
If this is not happening, then i suspect the downloaded image is 
corrupt. I have had this myself.
try redownloading the second cd, put it in the drive when logged in via 
xwindows(if it runs) and add the packages.
alternatively add all the packages manually ( you may need to get a list 
of new packages, then remove those same packages first (pkgrm) from the 
old version and install new, cant remember if pkgadd has an upgrade 
flag,  to allow it to overwrite existing packages like rpm does).
to do this mount the cd if it wont automount with
mount -rF hsfs /dev/cdrom /mnt
if the cdrom link is not there then replace the /dev/cdrom with
/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0
regards peter