Solaris 8 to Solaris 9

UNIX Solaris
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Hi All,

Now I have a Sun Blade 1000 with the Solaris 8, but now I am going to upgrade this workstation to Solaris 9. This system got 2 harddisk drives sit inside and the filesystems are as below:

Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 1021735 196548 763883 21% /
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s6 4133838 3435115 657385 84% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s4 4133838 144646 3947854 4% /var
swap 14243648 24 14243624 1% /var/run
swap 14247208 3584 14243624 1% /tmp
/dev/md/dsk/d0 70487194 65921732 3860591 95% /tansys
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s5 4133838 447982 3644518 11% /opt
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7 48973888 575862 47908288 2% /home0

And the metadb is as below:

d0: Concat/Stripe
Size: 143135616 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase
c0t2d0s0 0 No

Can I just move over the /dev/md/dsk/d0 to the new Solaris 9 without format or recreate it?

Thanks.

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Does this help? Upgrading a Solaris server with LiveUpgrade

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Hi Porter,

Thanks for your reply. If I want to do a fresh installation instead of upgrade it then is it possible to keep all the data inside /dev/md/dsk/d0 ??

Thanks.

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From memory fresh installs reformat the drive.

I personally would assume the worst and ensure I had a complete reliable backup.

Do you have a duplicate system you can try this out on?

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Hi Porter,

I have trying to do some testing on the other Workstation now to see if it is works or not.

By the way, thanks for your help. :slight_smile: