How to Maintaion two versions of Solaris in same box

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=557738

... except that Solaris SPARC doesn't use grub.

In those circumstances, you just use separate individual boot drives,

and have OBP stop the bootup at the OK prompt.

Then you manually choose whichever disk-du-jour would be your boot drive.

rukbata at 2007-7-12 15:48:50 >

Live Upgrade provides for multiple BEs (boot environments).

Here is the frist paragraph from man live_upgrade

DESCRIPTION

The Live Upgrade feature of the Solaris operating environ-

ment enables you to maintain multiple operating system

images on a single system. An image-called a boot environ-

ment, or BE-represents a set of operating system and appli-

cation software packages. The BEs might contain different

operating system and/or application versions.

have a good day,

glen

sysglena at 2007-7-12 15:48:50 >