As I have already said, no you do not need to break the mirrors in order to patch the system, just as you would not break the mirrors to add a new user account or add a new mount.
If you have an off line back from which you can restore the system quickly enough then breaking the mirrors just makes the whole process a lot longer.
If you wish to break the mirrors using metdetach(1m) then you run:
In your case:
The /etc/vfstab inside d20 will need amending to make it mount the actual device that is in d20 (i.e. /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 ) and when booting off it you will need to boot off the dev-alias in the OBP that points to that disk, if you are wanting to use the broken off sub-mirror to recover back to the state the machine was in before mirroring make sure you can boot off it before patching the other side of the mirror.
Can someone tell me how to get the installation date of a patch? I've done a showrev which I assume tells me if the patch cluster has been installed. It shows...SunOS 5.8 Generic 108528-23 June 2003. I'm assuming June 2003 is the patch release date. Is that right? How can I determine the... (1 Reply)
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I am having trouble installing some HPUX patches on my 11.00. I am a novice at this so bear with me. I do not understand how to install depots.
Now I'm trying to patch my system so I can get the Oracle client installed.
Oracle says I need these two patches: PHSS_21950, QPK_11.00.64
I go to:... (0 Replies)
HI: Thanks for your help
Im follow the steps describe on the link http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90772/ch06s01.html and have a diffetrent types of error messages and warning messages describes below:
on the step two
sh: PH* not found
on step three
*session started for user "root@test"... (0 Replies)
Hi people:
I am having trouble installing some HPUX patches on my 11.00. I am a novice :confused: at this so bear with me. I do not understand how to install depots.
Now I'm trying to patch my system so I can get the Oracle client installed.
Oracle says I need these two patches:... (5 Replies)
Hi,
When we install patch on solaris box, if the server gets rebooted, do we need remove the patch and install? Or can we just re install? Please advise. (2 Replies)
Hey hi all,
I just recently encountered these question regarding patch installation, the scenario is like these that i have three patches a,b,c and each of them require a server reboot.And I don't have to reboot the server three times..i can reboot it only once.. so what should i do ?
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Dear All,
I have some 6 RedHat Servers ( 5.4 ) tikanga connected to the Intranet.
Some are Database Servers and application servers.
For the past 1.5 years , we have not installed any patches..
Is there any way to find out , whether these systems needs patches
and where to... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I'm very new to this forum and solaris -
I have solaris 5.10 installed on my machine (x86) and when I did a prerequisite check for Oracle Database 11g R2, it was showing the following patches are missing -
OS Patch:137104-02
OS Patch:120754-06
OS Patch:119961-05
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Am new to Linux and this forum
From where can I download sysstatx86_64 and numactl-devel patches ?
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suninstall
suninstall(1M) System Administration Commands suninstall(1M)NAME
suninstall - install the Solaris operating system
SYNOPSIS
suninstall
DESCRIPTION install-solaris(1M) is now the preferred command for starting and restarting the Solaris Installation program. It should be used instead of
suninstall. suninstall is symbolically linked to install-solaris.
suninstall is a forms-based and graphical subsystem for installing the operating system.
suninstall exists only on the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should only be invoked from there. Refer to the Solaris 10 Instal-
lation Guide: Basic Installations for more details.
suninstall allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. suninstall loads the software available on the installa-
tion media. Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for disk space requirements.
USAGE
Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for more information on the various menus and selections.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcdrom (Solaris instal- |
| |lation media) |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO pkginfo(1), install(1M), install-solaris(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)
Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations
NOTES
It is advisable to exit suninstall by means of the exit options in the suninstall menus.
SunOS 5.10 9 Sep 2004 suninstall(1M)