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[Flynn, Harold M. III]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	mahesh adulla [SMTP:mahesh_adulla at hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, November 04, 1999 9:07 AM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
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> We are presently running  Solaris 2.3 on Sun SPARC 1000.We are using
> Oracle
> 7.1 on it.We want to upgrade the OS from solaris 2.3 to 2.6 and database
> from Oracle 7.1 to 7.3.
> 
> 
> 1.What are the precautions we should take before starting this task?
> 
	[Flynn, Harold M. III]  
	ufsdump of the os and data would be good.  This will save your tail
if the upgrade gets borked (been there, done that, t-shirt, etc).

> 2.Please suggest us which will be the best method to perform this
> activity.
> 
	[Flynn, Harold M. III]  
	init 0, boot cdrom, go into the upgrade.

> 3.Is the solaris 2.6 is completely y2k compliant?
> 
	[Flynn, Harold M. III]  
	2.6 is Certified by Sun to be y2k ready.  There is, however, more
information on this subject at
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/y2k-patches

> 4.Whether all Y2k patches are available for solaris 2.3 OS or not?
	[Flynn, Harold M. III] 
	See above URL. 

> Praveen
> pranat at yahoo.com
>