Liveupgrade is a great feature in Solaris which reduces the downtime patching, upgrades and providing a quick rollback mechanism. It is very interesting to see Sun’s Factory Boot Disk layout.
Check the following link for detail
http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmin/BootDiskLayout
Archive for March 13th, 2008
Solaris factory boot disk layout
Posted in Live Upgrade, Solaris on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How to rebuild the /dev/sg/* and /dev/rmt/* devices on a Solaris Master or Media server- Without rebooting
Posted in Veritas NetBackup on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are the basic steps to rebuild the /dev/sg/* and /dev/rmt/* devices on a Solaris server without rebooting.
1. Create a backup copy of the current st.conf file:# cp /kernel/drv/st.conf /kernel/drv/st.conf.bak
2. Move the existing sg.conf to a backup (this must be a move, otherwise a later step will fail):# mv /kernel/drv/sg.conf /kernel/drv/sg.conf.bak
3. Create a backup copy [...]
