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        Solaris 7 MU2 is now out at
http://access1.sun.com/Products/solaris/mu/mu.html . It is primarily
patches and some driver updates.
        -Andy

Umm.. **100 megabytes** ?

good frekin...  "*some* driver updates"?

I mean, that's basically enough to completely replace SUNWcsr and THEN some...

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There's nothing forcing you to install MU's. Recommended and security patches
are available from Sunsolve and all others should probably not be installed
onto production systems unless you encounter a bug.
John

     Sun didn't explain this very well.  The download isn't 100MB, only about
26MB.  The 100MB figure is the space it takes up uncompressed.  I *wish* they
had put that on the web page.  I almost quit downloading it because of that.

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Hmmm...  There is authorization on that page.  Not so long ago driver
updates for Solaris used to be publicly available...

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Just register using solregis.

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Well, I registered using the form linked from access1.sun.com, and
not only do I still not have access, but I've gotten annoying and
unwanted email as a result of registering.

What's the deal???

-James

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Quote:>Well, I registered using the form linked from access1.sun.com, and
>not only do I still not have access, but I've gotten annoying and
>unwanted email as a result of registering.

Did you unclick the "Its ok to send me annoying and unwanted email
box" on the form? I used the solregis tool and havent gotten any
emails.
John

Yes, that's why I'm really annoyed.  I don't have solregis
installed on any of my machines, and I'm not a big fan of
that sort of program (because of the uses M$ puts them to).

Are the MUs available on the Sunsolve site as well?  It seems
like they ought to be...

-James

Quote:>Are the MUs available on the Sunsolve site as well?  It seems
>like they ought to be...

If you're a support contract customer, you can download all the
patches individually or just wait for the 5/99 CD's to come in the mail.

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For some reason I imagined that the MUs could be applied to an
install image (for network installs).  In retrospect, they'd
have to be created for that specifically.  I guess I need the
CDs anyway.

Thanks for the info,

-James

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Quote:>Are the MUs available on the Sunsolve site as well?  It seems
>like they ought to be...

The recommended and security patches will be in the open section of
Sunsolve.
John

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>Just register using solregis.

solregis can be a pain in the butt.
It requires hotjava, it's a pain to find after you've dismissed it,
and it DOESN"T WORK THROUGH PROXY.  Why the hell don't you guys
just make a link from the "access denied" page, to a HTML registration
form right there?

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>be fiction rather than truth.

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http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access

NO recommended patches for solaris 7.

(which is stupid, because there are at least TWO I would consider
 "critical")

(and which is doubly stupid, because sun has seen fit to have the
 "MU2" free, so why not on sunsolve also?!!)

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Indeed MU's can be put as part of the network installed image.
For MU1, in my OS server, e.g. /export/S7 (where you have the Solaris_2.7 dir
underneath), create dir s7_maintenance_update_1_sparc and cd into it, then
unzip MU1 in there. Network installs will automatically patch up to MU1.
I expect the same happens to MU2 (haven't tried yet.)

Kai

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