Re: 9i upgrade os question

From: Barbara Baker <barbarabbaker_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:22:33 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20041021192233.24765.qmail@web50607.mail.yahoo.com>

Mike:
Here are my notes:

*SunOS/Solaris Background Information

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"SunOS" is the core operating system comprising the kernel, utilities and basic libraries. "Solaris" is the broader environment comprising SunOS, OpenWindows and networking support. In other words, SunOS is a component of Solaris. Here's how the versions of SunOS and Solaris relate to each other:

SunOS 5.3    = Solaris 2.3 
SunOS 5.4    = Solaris 2.4 
SunOS 5.5    = Solaris 2.5 
SunOS 5.5.1 = Solaris 2.5.1 
SunOS 5.6    = Solaris 2.6 
SunOS 5.7    = Solaris 2.7 (or 7)
SunOS 5.8    = Solaris 2.8 (or 8)

 So, for example, when "uname -a" reports that the server has SunOS 5.6 installed it's actually got Solaris 2.6 installed

HTH.
Barb

• Michael McMullen <ganstadba_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have sun solaris 5.6 running 8.1.7.3.
> Certification matrix states 9i is
> certified on 2.6. Is this the same as 5.6. I'm
> thinking I should force the
> os upgrade first to 9 but because our version of
> veritas is so outdated we
> would have to wipe out all the disks. So big
> downtime and therefore might be
> forced to run on 5.6.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
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