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I am patching a Solaris server with the latest Oracle OS patches. Console is hung in between and I am not able to see anything. I know that patching process happens in background. So, patching is...

bash-2.05# od -c sunos.tar | head
0000000 033 032 Í Æ Ë ¦ á Â Á Ô ê 004 232 W 006 ü
0000020 Õ 206 Ù 8 ú = Ý Í a 205 Â 026 i 3 a \
0000040 Á ¿ 227 \t Õ 217 g 212 ` 203 + O ÷ T ª ª
0000060 ¸ ê 033 ´ Ð 025 ¥ h ¥ 220...

Hello,

bash-2.05# tar -xvf sunos.tar
tar: directory checksum error
bash-2.05# file sunos.tar
sunos.tar: data
bash-2.05#

Can someone please help me untar this. This is a Solaris 9 box.

I have to upgrade the the firmware in order to patch it with latest kernel patch. The requirnment is that FIRMWARE should be at least 6.4.6.

For other systems, when I do showhost or do prtdiag, I...

svcs -d svc:/application/management/sma:default ? ?

svsc -d svc:/application/management/sma:default ? ?

I am having a Sun-Fire-T2000 server which is having Solaris OS running on it.

I am not able to find an exact Firmware version. Please suggest something.

sc> showhost
Host flash versions:
...

will reboot -- -r update boot_archive ?

this is the what I see on my console.

# reboot -- -r
15+0 records in
15+0 records out
syncing file systems... done

It doesn't say updating...

will reboot -- -r update boot_archive ?

this is the what I see on my console.

# reboot -- -r
15+0 records in
15+0 records out
syncing file systems... done

It doesn't say updating...

Thanks for your help and most of all patience with me :D

You understood the scenario but not the time line....

The server was patched 40 days back and at the same timeI found out that my apps are not working and I booted with secondary disk the same day...

I am sorry if I am being too annoying, but can you please tell here which disk will have all the data [of course I am taking into consideration /usr1 i.e.slice 4 of boththe disk only]from the day...

Trying to simplify more :

/dev/md/dsk/d5 5G 3G 2G 70% /usr1before patching :
d5 -m d15 d25 1
d15 1 1 c0t0d0s4
d25 1 1 c0t1d0s4After patching since I have detached the...

Thanks !!

I thought of that initially but was expecting a second thought so posted here ;) !


Appreciate your time and help...

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That is correct ! Keeping all tha data intact including the changes that have been made for the past 40 days..

Sorry ! But, I realised that it could confuse..

c0t0d0 is the patched disk.
c0t1d0 is unpatched disk and I have booted through this last month.

Currently metastat -p output is

d13 ...

Hello,

I recently patched my Solaris 10 box and found out that few of the apps are not working. Fortunately, I had detached the mirroring prior to patching, so I just booted into my secondary disk...