Migration from Solaris 6 to Solaris 8

Hi

Can anyone offer any advice on how involved and difficult it would be to migrate a TS 552 sp2 system running on Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 2.8?

has anyone done this before?

All advice appreciated,

thanks

- mark

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bman1

Check out http://devnet.interwoven.com/site.fcgi/techlib/001248
its as simple as backing things up and re-running the install script. This will make sure that TS will point to all of the correct OS modules.

tvaughan

I did a Solaris 7 --> Solaris 8 upgrade fairly painlessly.

Basically, you need to change the symbolic link $IWHOM/bin/iwserver to point to the appropriate $IWHOME/bin/iwserver.2.X, where X is your Solaris version.

Then, copy the appropriate kernel file that ships in the $IWHOME/kernel/fsl directory over top of the system's /kernel/fs directory.

If you check out the $IWHOME/install/iwinstall script (right around line #960) you'll see what I mean.

It's also a pretty good idea to walk through that script just to see what other one-offs you might need to be aware of.

In my case, I think the only gotchya was the /etc/name_to_sysnum file that I think I needed to update with the appropriate kernel id value:
wfs 181

Other than that, after the box was rebooted, things worked like a charm. Of course, I'd highly recommend backing everything up. . .. in the worst case scenario, you'll just need to blow away your mangled installation and re-install. . . .

Tom