Updating Solaris OS


Prerequesites:

- There should be no one logged on to the machine
- The update process takes about 2 hrs!
- There must be space on the local drives!
- The machine must be rebooted afterwards!


Getting the Patches:

go to sunsolve.sun.com
log in (create an account if needed)

click on "Patches and Updates"
under Downloads, click on "Recommended Patch Clusters"

Download 2 of the clusters:
the J2SE Solaris cluster and
Solaris cluster

for your OS (to find out which one you have, type "uname -a")

They are fairly large .ZIP files. Save them somewhere (NOT /tmp, as that gets deleted when rebooting.)


Installing the patches:
unzip a cluster (ideally to /tmp)
go to that directory and run
./install-cluster -nosave
then wait for a long long time
and then reboot the machine:
sync ; reboot

repeat for both clusters (OS cluster + java cluster)