Moving Solaris 2.6 from Ultra 5 to Ultra 10? Problems?

Moving Solaris 2.6 from Ultra 5 to Ultra 10? Problems?

Post by Joey » Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:40:41



The Ultra 5 that I've been using as a print server has died...I have a full
backup of the Ultra 5's OS and data.   Since I have an Ultra10 that isn't
doing anything right now.. Would it be possible to do a ufsrestore to the
ultra10.  Has anyone ever tried this?  If so, being that the I'm restoring
to a different hardware platform, should I expect any problems?

thks.

 
 
 

Moving Solaris 2.6 from Ultra 5 to Ultra 10? Problems?

Post by ho.. » Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:51:27


The Ultra5 and Ultra10 are actually the same platform as far as the OS is
concerned, the Ultra10 is just in a mini-tower case.

(12:48am) rubicon [~]> uname -i
SUNW,Ultra-5_10

That's my Ultra10, you'll get the same results from an Ultra5.  You should
have no problem as long as the hardware is setup the same.  You should do
a boot -r just to make sure.  Now, if you were going from an sbus platform
to a PCI platform, that would be a bit more interesting (and not one I
really enjoyed when I did it, but only because I hadn't done it before.
;)

Good luck...


> The Ultra 5 that I've been using as a print server has died...I have a full
> backup of the Ultra 5's OS and data.   Since I have an Ultra10 that isn't
> doing anything right now.. Would it be possible to do a ufsrestore to the
> ultra10.  Has anyone ever tried this?  If so, being that the I'm restoring
> to a different hardware platform, should I expect any problems?

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1. upgrade from Ultra-2 to Ultra-10, and Solaris 2.6 to 2.7

I am upgrading a system from Solaris 2.6 to 2.7, and at the same time moving
everything on the old 2.6
system from a Ultra-2 to a Ultra-10 machine.  I was told by Sun people that
I can not just do a backup
and restore the system to move it from the old machine to the new one,
because their architecture are
different. So I build the new Solaris 2..7 system on the new Ultra-10
machine.

I suppose the new system should be able to recognize all the ASCII file, so
I disconnect one of the
external SCSI disk( which is the user partition), and connect it to the new
system.  But the new Ultra-10
system says this partition is corrupted, and need to be 'fsck.'   So does it
mean I have to build the disk
again, using backup and restore?  Can anyone tell me what should I do?

Thanks a lot,

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