Solaris 8 -> 10 upgrade options
I want to upgrade a Sol. 8 sytem to Sol. 10 but acomplish 2 objectives in the process:
1.) Reduce the system disk mounts pts (/var,/opt) to just /
2.) Attempt to do a UPGRADE install so as to not have to restore all my custom apps.
I tried a quick UPGRADE install and it failed during the testing upgrade profiile - /usr on Sol. 8 disk is only 2GB big and Sol. 10 needed 4GB.
I tried a UPGRADE install again but specified a backup media of a spare partition on a spare dirve that is the size of the Sol. 8 system disk but it too failed during install on restoring /usr to 2GB partition.
I then did the INITIAL install option and could specify my own partition layout and afterwards restore all custom files but it is very time consuming.
Is there a way to upgrade the Sol. 8 system that would allow me to specify the partion layout - short of the INITIAL install option and have solaris install do the restores for me?
Thanks in advance,
Dino
