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Hello! I'm trying to upgrade a SPARC 20 Solaris 2.3 (with Recommended
Patch Cluster applied) to Solaris 2.5, but the "upgrade" option
isn't presented.

The manual states that either of these conditions can cause this:

        1. var/sadm is symlink or on other filesystem
        2. var/sadm/softinfo/INST_RELEASE doesn't exist.

Neither of these are true, yet it won't ask whether I want
Upgrade or Initial, it just goes into Initial.

Please help!

Dave
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: Hello! I'm trying to upgrade a SPARC 20 Solaris 2.3 (with Recommended
: Patch Cluster applied) to Solaris 2.5, but the "upgrade" option
: isn't presented.

: The manual states that either of these conditions can cause this:

:       1. var/sadm is symlink or on other filesystem
:       2. var/sadm/softinfo/INST_RELEASE doesn't exist.

: Neither of these are true, yet it won't ask whether I want
: Upgrade or Initial, it just goes into Initial.

: Please help!

Are you sure, that /var is on the root-partition? I had
the same problem. After copying the var-partition
to root, it went to Upgrade.

Joerg.

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