live upgrade Can you go from Sol8 to Sol9

From: Greg Wilson (gwilson_at_connect.com.au)
Date: 02/11/05

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    Hi

    Im having some problems upgrading a Solaris 8 machine
    to a Solaris 9 machine via live upgrade

    The machine is setup with Solaris8

    live upgrade installed

    application SUNWlur Live Upgrade 2.0 10/01 (root)
    application SUNWluu Live Upgrade 2.0 10/01 (usr)

    the machine is not under any ODS control.

    i create a Boot Environment

    and copied over the Sol8 disk to the Sol9 disk

    i then inserted the Solaris9 DVD media and mounted it

    then i tried to upgrade to solaris 9

    and i get this message

    <snip>
    The media is a standard Solaris media.
    The media contains an operating system upgrade image.
    The media contains <Solaris> version <9>.
    The media contains patches for the product.
    ERROR: This version of Live Upgrade is unable to upgrade to <Solaris>
    version
    <9>. Only upgrades to version <5.8> are supported by this version of Live
    Upgrade.

    Press ENTER to continue
    <snip>

    any ideas? 

    -- 
Greg Wilson	Senior System Administrator	greg.wilson@aapt.com.au
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