[pca] what is my release number

Dennis Clarke dclarke at blastwave.org
Mon Feb 20 21:26:01 CET 2012


> I was under the impression that installing the latest patches, was the same as
> installing the latest release.
>
> Over the weekend I installed all the latest patches for my host and I still
> get the following release information.
>
> # cat /etc/release
>                         Solaris 10 5/09 s10x_u7wos_08 X86
>            Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>                         Use is subject to license terms.
>                              Assembled 30 March 2009
>
> I would like to upgrade to Solaris 10 10/09. How do I do this.

You pretty much have to burn a DVD or netboot the latest release and
then perform an upgrade.

dc


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