Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download patch clusters. The sun solaris 9 patch cluster can be downloaded from the following url. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Checking patches that you specified for installation. It didnt like something and will now not load the kernel. May 01, 2009 last few days im working on debugging the solaris 10 jumpstart install for some old desktops ultra 10, ultra 60. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Install the current sun update connection client on the solaris 10 system that will be used as the local patch server. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image 20070710t16.
However, if the remote system is a miniroot or an oracle solaris 10 system that is not a solaris10 zone, the operation will produce undefined results. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Patching the miniroot image example oracle solaris 10. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers.
Prepare iso with solaris 10 u11, recommended patch cluster, lu patch, cluster 3. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. When downloading patches, where should i download the patch for solaris 10 with zones before applying. Its known to be necessary when performing a flash install of an updated zfsroot image. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. After getting this information, jumpstart client downloads the minimal kernelminiroot using tftp protocol from the jumpstart server from the tftpboot directory, and. There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose. In this twopart video sam, the solaris 10 system administrator, is introduced to the solaris 10 patching best practices by the mysterious patch man.
Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Patching the miniroot image tasks oracle solaris 10 8. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. On a system that is running the oracle solaris 10 os, follow these steps, but note these details. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. After patchingupgrading system, added updated disk to rootdg.
Mar 25, 2016 configure two node vcs cluster on linux rhel 7 veritas cluster tutorials for beginners duration. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. The fact is, the primary boot environment is a solaris 10 installation. Patching the miniroot image is strictly used for adding driver and hardware support to the process that performs the actual installation of the solaris os. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. At work, we precisely encounter a bug between solaris 606 and the provided nvidia driver which prevents jumpstarting it on a sun fire x4100 m2 server. A miniroot consists of all the solaris software that is required to boot the system to either install or upgrade the system. Patching source code to build a solaris 10 package youtube. I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching. Chapter 7 patching the miniroot image tasks oracle docs. How to configure a solaris 10 jumpstart server and client sparc.
This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. The solaris operating system uses a compressed miniroot. Solaris 10 kernel patches looks hard, but it isnt oracle. Note this procedure is only for patching the miniroot, not for patching the complete network installation image. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference. If the patch already exists, and rerun this, will it be any harm 3. Patching an x86 miniroot image for the solaris os blogo thnet. Because most system and application software are installed as. In this example, you perform the unpacking and packing of the miniroot on a system that is running the current release. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. How to patch the miniroot image note this procedure is only for patching the miniroot, not for patching the complete network installation image. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. This procedure shows how to install a kernel update ku patch on an oracle solaris 10 1 miniroot image on a system that is running the oracle solaris 10 os.
If you are able to regularly patch your systems, then apply the recommended patch cluster, which one can download if one has an oracle technology network login gratis which is tied to a valid support contract non gratis. Patching the miniroot image tasks oracle solaris 10 9. I have recently installed solaris 10 and things were going great until i tried to change a driver file nf to add my dat 72 tape drive. Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris 8 pearson. The solaris patch manager tool provides all the necessary features in one application. This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support. Automatic patch install for solaris 10 expertsexchange. Users should upgrade to the latest version of the solaris live upgrade software prior to patching the system, regardless of the version of the solaris os running on the system.
The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies. When you patch the miniroot image, the patch is not installed on the system where the solaris os installation occurs or on the system that the patchadd command is run. Patching the miniroot image tasks oracle solaris 10 1. Patching a live solaris 10 system without live upgrade ive used this procedure for patching a live solaris system with a zfs root. The patching requires that the zones be bootable, and they are not bootable because of service dependencies when in single user. The compressed miniroot was adopted first in solaris for x86 and then in solaris for sparc over the course of solaris 10 update releases. Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. Only 5 patches is very, very suspicious, as darren mentioned. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatchsolaris 10wanbootminirootimage 20070710t16. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. For patch operations initiated from within oracle solaris 10 zones, if the remote system is another solaris10 zone, the patching operation works correctly.
To apply a patch to the mini root of a net install image the image used to. Hello, id like to install the latest patch cluster on my solaris 10 sparc server. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatchsolaris10wanbootminirootimage 20070710t16. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. For a customer on an early version of solaris 10, such as solaris 10 0305, solaris 10 106 update 1, or solaris 10 606 update 2, there is a very significant amount of code change delivered, for example, in the current kernel patch compared with the original kernels delivered in these releases.
There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. See below for an easy way to determine whether your solaris system uses a compressed miniroot. Any one of the cli tools mentioned for solaris will provide an easy process to automate patch management. When i installed sol 10 1106 from dvd, many patches were included with the distribution, so it is likely that your patch database has been corrupted. Patching a live solaris 10 system without live upgrade. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Patch set download effectively dynamically generated patch clusters. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with recommended patches.
The zones update on attach feature and patching in the solaris 10 os. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Because it would be a great exercise to patch my installation of solaris. Sep 17, 2015 regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. Patching the miniroot image is strictly used for adding driver and hardware support to the process that performs the actual installation of the oracle solaris os. Solaris live upgrade is designed and compiled to work on the solaris 8, 9, and 10 os releases. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract.
As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular quarter. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when. To download, run smpatch download machine must be registered with sun then smpatch analyze this will show you the available updates for the machine you just downloaded then smpatch update applies patches note from my solaris administrator book must have solaris 10 and have the developer software support group installed. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. A miniroot consists of all the oracle solaris software that is required to boot the system to either install or upgrade the system. Note that the solaris 10 106 and later releases include the client software. The media contains 198 software patches that can be added. Patches fails with unhandled subprocess exit status 5 exit n branch patch fails with below errors. Oct 26, 2011 install to solaris live upgrade software. Patching the miniroot image example oracle solaris 10 8.
Jan 19, 2016 solaris 10 x86 patching with svm mohamed musthaq. Ensure that the repository contains the required sru to patch the endpoints. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support. I download solaris 10, now i am trying to download patch on the webpage patch access, but i can not. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as do an upgrade to the solaris 10 update release. I would reinstall solaris 10 1106 from scratch, or wait a few months until the next sol 10 version comes out. I wonder if i could make patching without live upgrade in a following way. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean with out paying a license. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. Im not sure if sun supports this process, so dont use on a production server until you have tested patching. Svr4 packaging and patching in oracle solaris 10 zones. This page provides the latest information on patching.
Mar 22, 2007 here is an awesome article describing how to patch update the kernel used during an installation or system upgrade process, known as miniroot, for x86 based solaris platform. I need to get into a miniroot session to change the file back so it will not try adding duff info to the kernel. This procedure shows how to install a kernel update ku patch on a oracle solaris 10 811 miniroot image. Important it can be considered best practice to patch the boot miniroot as soon as possible. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. Sun patch check and patchdiag can be used to find patches to install, but installation would have to be done manually. Pca analyze, download and install patches for oracle solaris. If the local repository does not contain the latest sru or the sru needed for the endpoint, run the tasks to update the repository i. Single user mode doesnt really work for patching solaris 10 with zones.
Among few wellknown problems, ive noticed such an anomaly. Patching the miniroot image example this example describes the steps to patch a miniroot image to create a modified miniroot. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. When you patch the miniroot image, the patch is not installed on the system where the oracle solaris os installation occurs or on the system that the patchadd command is run.