> @bodie. Then there is something I don't understand. I > tried installing Solaris 10 updates, but I can't seem > to do anything unless I have a contract number, which > I don't.
You won't be able to update for free via a patch cluster; only security patches (and those they depend on) are free, AFAIK. You have to fetch the latest Solaris 10 for SPARC, and re-install that, although if you had set aside an extra partition on the boot drive, or are already running with zfs root, you could use LiveUpgrade, which would let you use the system while the upgrade ran and would also allow you to keep around the old version until you were satisfied with the update. (If you're not set up in a way that makes LiveUpgrade feasible, that's your problem, although adding a disk (or a bootable controller and external disk(s)) is one answer. AFAIK, USB/Firewire will not be bootable, at least not on SPARC.) For the extra work of updating via re-install (or LiveUpgrade), you probably get some extra stuff; the patch clusters typically have changes to existing packages, but may not have new functionality requiring new packages. Take the opportunity of the re-install to document all the tweaks and additions that you have to (re-)apply afterwards, so that someone else could take over for you if they had to. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
