Cannot add patch on Solaris 8
First off, I apologize for posting in the Solaris 9 forum, but there is no forum for 8.
Now to my problem.
I am trying to apply the patch for daylight saving time to my Solaris 8 system (I know, I'm cutting things a little close but....)
Anyway, I'm not having any (good) luck.
My problems are many. First, when I try to go into Single user mode something strange happens. From the console attached to the server I type shutdown -i s. The screen (again directly attached to the server) goes blank and I lose access to the computer, however I can still tel-net into the system. This seems to be exactly opposite what I understand single user mode to be.
I decided to try to install the patch from the telnet terminal. I su'd to root and downloaded the patches I need. This is my next problem.
The contents of the /etc/release file show my system as: Solaris 8 2/02 s28s_u7wos_08a SPARC. But I can not find a patch for this particular build, the closest is for 8 2/04 (patch ID 125226-01).
So I try to install that patch from the /tmp directory:
patchadd 125226-01
gives this output:
Checking installed patches...
One or more patch packages included in
125226-01 are not installed on this system.
Patchadd is terminating.
Can this patch not be applied to this release? Is there a release available for my build? Am I hosed?
Thanks for any help.
