Re: [Aussie-sun] What is the best way to upgrade from Solaris 9 to 10?

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:09

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"Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> writes:

>S10 doesn't have the "Installation CD" thingie any more, just boot off 
>disk 1, or the DVD.

Thanks - I realised that when I checked all the other CD's and noticed there
are four main Solaris 10 operating system CD's so I just tried the first
one. 8-)

>An upgrade install may not clean up the trash, someone else may have an 
>opinion on that.

Well that's a very subjective way to describe it, but at least starting with
a freshly installed OS means all the vendor-supplied packages will be
contiguously up to date, more or less.

Craig.
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