If a single prompt is issued, or if there are several prompts and they all require a "y" response, you can invoke it in a pipeline reading output from the yes utility.
so I tried the obvious
but that did not appear to work.
Ok, ...
I tried posting this in the beginner's forum, but maybe that wasnt the right place.
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Hi,
Is it possible to perform an luupgrade on the active boot environment in Solaris?
I want to perform this on BEAlpha - the disk that has BEOmega will be unavailable whilst performing the upgrade but I still want to install the patches using luupgrade.
Boot Environment Is... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm fairly new to Solaris and am just getting to grips with using LU (Live Upgrade) for OS patching purposes.
worcester#uname -a
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My OS solarius 5.10 Generic_147148-2 i86
Error: please review new boots environments using options
1. Solution - show me the commands
Partition is full, try to remove some unneeded files,
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TLDR: Patched a separate boot environment to 11.4. Activated and rebooted the system only to have it boot loop and show 11.3 on the patched boot environment.
Bootloop process: The system went down, came up showing 11.3 then spewed bunch of errors and resetted. SEE BELOW FOR THE FINAL MSG... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: samthewildone
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
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)