As you may already know, oracle sun patches are now available from my oracle support mos. Sun microsystems has rushed out patches to fix a code execution hole in the solaris 10 11 telnet daemon in. Oracle sun patches now available from my oracle support. Oracle solaris 10 support explained oracle solaris blog. Sunultra510 service manual part no 805042311 november 1998, revision a sun microsystems, inc. In addition sun provides, sun update connection which informs you of the latest available security fixes, recommended updates and feature updates. This means that customers on early releases of solaris 10, such as solaris 10 0305 can install a set of patches to get the zfs feature. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Suns solaris now getting quarterly security patches. Im running solaris 10 on a sun ultra 5, and i was running update manager. Oracle solaris 11 storage agent only with tsm storage agent 6. Requirements and preparation for installing the solaris 10.
The solaris 10 1008 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 1008 release. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. Oracle solaris server requirements and support ibm. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. I highly recommend upgrading to a current release, either solaris 10 update 9 or solaris 11 express. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. This document provides easy access to special categories of sun product patches and updates from my oracle support. I recently inherited an old sun ultra 10 sparc workstation. I heard both yes and no but cant find actual documentation for either yes or no. Sun had previously released security patches on an ad.
Sun patch check free opensource utility to check patch. Hcl detail entry for solaris 10 1008 sun microsystems, sun ultra 27 workstation. I have two sun ultra 5 10 workstations processor is sparc iii 440 and ram is 512 but without hard disk and cdrom so can i use seagate 40gb and sony dvd writer which is presented in windows pc. Obsolete zones patch 12266010 sparc 12266108 x86 must be. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena.
The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one. An abbreviated list of the equipment i used to evaluate solaris 10 is as follows. Sep 30, 2017 showing off my sun ultra 10 running solaris 7. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Unspecified vulnerability in oracle sun solaris 10 and 11 allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to network, a different vulnerability than cve20040230. Sun microsystems solaris 10 release notes nokia networks. In solaris 11, there is no classification for packages or patches.
The solaris 10 update 10 09 stack has relatively few system software tweaks, but the postgresql 8. Many of the new patches for solaris 10 are unavailable on sun s patch server, so pca will fail to download them. Oracle solaris 10 running in 64bit mode on a system with amd64 or em64t architecture. Through notifications and intelligent updates, sun update connection helps you stay secure and on course, work efficiently, and avoid potential system problems. Is there a way to clean up the varsadmpkg area, aka dump the save info. Pca analyze, download and install patches for oracle solaris.
The new move is the latest in a series of new feature. Sparc patch list oracle solaris 10 910 patch list oracle docs. Sun releases new update for solaris 10 operating system. How to check solaris release and default kernel version. After selecting restart to install the restart updates i watched while the system when into single user mode and then started installing the restart needed updates. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Cannot install sun solaris 10 on ultra 10 the unix and. Solaris 10 1106 os enhances efficiency, safety, and reliability. I have been trying to customize a solaris install cdrom to my own needs.
Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Ultra 5 was coming in a pizza case, while ultra 10 is a mini tower. Ultra 510 was one of the first mainstream sun systems to support ide there. Solaris 10 10 08 also includes virtualization enhancements including the ability for a solaris container to automatically update its environment when moved from one system to another, logical domains support for dynamically reconfigurable disk and network io, and paravirtualization support when solaris 10 is used as a guest os in xenbased.
Sun has released a security patch addressing the following issues. With its last solaris update version 10 08 in november, sun introduced some support for intels nehalem chip architecture. Sun rushes out patch for solaris telnet exploit zdnet. Solaris 10 for sparc would be s10x for x86, update 10, wad of stuff just. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. Oracle solaris 10 running in 64bit mode on a sun ultra sparc system with sun4u or sun4v architectures. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. Because ultra 5 and ultra 10 share the same motherboard. This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g.
Earlier solaris 8, 9, 10 releases are available in our iso archives. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. For solaris 10 1008 release, patch 712206 is required to. Sun updates solaris 10 performance, security internetnews. Minimum requirements for solaris 10 in guest ldoms on m7. Oracle solaris 10 9 10 or oracle solaris 10 811, plus oracle solaris 10 1 sparc bundle and patches. Oracle solaris 10 extended support will continue to supply you with fixes, security patches, security alerts for oracle solaris 10 similar to oracle solaris 10 premier support for 3 years. On the components tab, add the following items to component group 1 and ensure they are ordered as listed here. I am trying to find out if solaris 10 will support the ultra 10 with the sunpci i 400mhz card. Sunos is a unixbranded operating system developed by sun microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems. The sun alert patch cluster contains solaris operating system os patches only.
Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. Sparc t7 series servers product notes oracle solaris 10 811 mandatory patches this version of the os is supported only in guest domains. After applying a cluster patch to a sun solaris box i am left with a root volume 81% full. Before starting with upgrade it is good to check and fix any issues with current system and environment. I have no idea how to work openboot, but thats another issue still. Jan 22, 2008 first of all, let me say that my personnel experience of sun s patch automation tools is limited. As far as i know patches were never made available for that. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs. Kernel updates can be identified with the kernel patch version, here 14744001. Solaris 10 systems which have had any kernel patch installed after, or updated via patching tools since 20120126 are not impacted. This is what enables oracle to provide ultra longterm support for each. Sun ultra 20 keeps rebooting after installing solaris 10 kernel patch everything was fine and i was using java desktop environment. Run the following to command to find the last installed packages patches.
Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone. Solaris 10 for sparc would be s10x for x86, update 10, wad of stuff just means its not the initial release, 17th build since u10 development started, second respin b note that this doesnt reflect an update that has been applied or not to the server but the precise version of solaris. Sun ultra 10 creator 3d edition running solaris 7 youtube. Solaris operating system version 9 ga to 10 9 10 u9 release 9. San francisco sun microsystems made the third, and latest, update to solaris 10 available for download on dec. It gets through the install of patches then hangs with 20% of the overall install. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. Sun update manager sum showed the list of available patches and i installed some of them including a kernel patch, 11884430 using sum. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. For example, to check for sun platforms that support the solaris 10 environment, use the command uname m. If you run the tool without specifying any parameters, you will be prompted to enter the. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary.
How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Ultra 5 10 was one of the first mainstream sun systems to support ide there were others at around the same time. This has been updated and expanded to 110 packages see solaris 10 u11 companion cddvd. How to find the oracle solaris critical patch update cpu.
Oracle solaris patch update oracle content marketing. Then yes, youre running an old solaris express development release. Cannot install sun solaris 10 on ultra 10 unix and linux forums. Sun ultra 20 keeps rebooting after installing solaris 10. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. With the new release, sun has expanded that support to include more power management capabilities. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. On a sun ultra5, the system returns sun4u as the platform name and on an x86x64 system, the command will return i86pc as the platform name. I need to reinstall the os no desire to salvage the solaris 7. Once again, i immediately reported this to sun s patch team. Java today announced the availability of the solaris tm 10 10 09 operating system os.
Apply the latest available solaris 10 update release during the next major. Unfortunately the old problem ive mentioned multiple times before is showing up again, too. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. Find last patched date on oracle solaris unixarena.
There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Most of the solaris administrators will search for solaris 11 os patch bundle like how we use to get for solaris 10 but you wont get it. Bringing solaris for x86 back to life was one of sun s smartest moves in recent years as it allows the company to have a substantive conversation with the volume. Assembled 24 march 2008 solaris 10 10 09 update 8 patch bundle applied. Note the oracle solaris 10 9 10 software contains scriptspecial patches which do not deliver bug fixes or new features, but deliver changes that are required as a result of issues with the creation of the update image. For all other solaris 10 patches, you will need a solaris 10 subscription or a sun support plan. The cluster provides all available patches that address sun alert issues for the.
And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. The sunos name is usually only used to refer to versions 1. Explaining how to fix the network interface with a dead nvram. Comment sun has announced a series of updates to its flagship solaris operating system. I could run through the hassle of resizing the slices which is way too much work for a ultra 5 running dns only. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Installing ubuntu on a sparc ultra 10 is a great way to put some old hardware back to constructive use. Also, any solaris 10 system installed with solaris 10 1 solaris 10 update 11 are not vulnerable. Obp patches generally require one to reboot, and boot from a. Sun ultra 10 creator with a 333 mhz ultrasparc ii cpu, 640 mb of memory and a 120 gb disk. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release.
Limitations exist with certain device drivers in solaris 10 os 65 dvdromcdrom drives on headless systems 66. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. However, since oracle took over, in my view there has been a loss of interest in small to mediumsized. Weve uploaded over 30,000 62 digit patchids to mos, including all solaris 8, 9, and 10 patches, suncluster, and patches for over a thousand other products. I have 30 of these machines in our teaching studio. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Lets find the last patched date on oracle solaris server. Jul 11, 2003 this ultra 2 was installed with solaris 9 and, unlike with solaris 8, we could achieve connectivity to the shark san without additional patches after the base solaris install. The updates also enable sun to add new features that enhance solaris 10. Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. Sun patch check is a simple opensource utility from titania that runs in unix or linux systems to check the patch installation status in a sun solaris server running on a sparc or intel platform and compare it to its own database of the latest recommended patches for that version of solaris operating system. It does just package upgrade on every update for fixes. Obviously, its also contained in all subsequent solaris 10 update releases, as update releases are cumulative.
This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Sun updates solaris 10 with focus on virtualization, security. During the solaris 10 extended support period, the updates to the recommended patchsets will contain patches that require a solaris 10 extended support contract, so the solaris 10 recommended patchsets will also require a solaris 10 extended support contract during this period. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. As i invariably get questions about solaris, sun systems in general, etc, i figure ill. I am seeking help to add patches to sloris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. Ultra 5 and ultra 10 systems might not boot if micron memory and obp 3. The update will include 16 security fixes for sun products, including solaris, sun cluster, sun convergence and the sun ray server software. If you want to know if a patch is installed, obsoleted or there is an update with pca will show it. Here we see etcrelease contains the original information for solaris 10 508 update 5 as shown in the table below, with an additional two lines a patch bundle identification line preceded by a blank line appended by the patch. Sun microsystems has made a series of updates to its solaris 10 1106 operating system to enhance efficiency, safety and reliability. What part of solaris version string ids the update.
Sunultra10 workstation series the ultra 10 workstation provides workstationclass features, such as large amounts of memory and ecache, 64bit hardware and operation system, and highperformance 3d graphics at a very affordable price. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with recommended patches. Ultra 5 and ultra 10 motherboards with open bootprom obp version 3. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find upd the unix and linux forums. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris.
I work upstream from the sysnet and services groups who produce most of sun s patch automation tools, so i and my team mostly patch from first principles using the basic solaris patch utilities, patchadd and patchrm. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Dec 04, 2017 well, lets start with extended support. Zfs was first shipped as part of solaris 10 606 update 2.
Are you sure solaris 10 will run well on an ultra 10. The installation includes operating system with patches, eagle firewall with. Infrastructure sun microsystems announces several enhancements to the solaris 10 operating system sun microsystems, inc. Companion cd packages are also available via the unix packages website, including the latest versions built for solaris 10 update 11 for sparc and x86. I have two sun ultra 510 workstations processor is sparc iii 440 and ram is 512 but. Sun recommends that some patches, including cluster and kernel patches, be applied with the computer in single user mode. Solaris 10 includes suns java desktop system jds, which is based on. One or more solaris patch fixlets available in the. Sparc patch list solaris 10 1009 patch list oracle docs.