Upgrading the System
Software Using
the Safe Upgrade and
Rollback Features
Your system ships with two disk partitions, one partition is used for the current runtime (RP) version of software and the other partition is for the upgraded (UP) version of software. Each partition provides 20 Gigabytes of disk space.
This chapter describes how to update your system software, and how to utilize these partitions.
Using Multiple Using two partitions, your system allows you to upgrade your system software
Versions of while maintaining a previous version of your configuration. The following sections describe how to accomplish this.
Software (Safe Upgrade)
Upgrading from Version 2.0
To upgrade your system from Version 2.0 to a newer release, while saving your current configuration, complete the following:
1.Connect to Console port as described in the previous section.
2.Partition your disk for dual boot. Note that this only has to be accomplished once. To do this, from root prompt, enter the following command:
fdisk /dev/ataraid/d0
3.Within the fdisk command, display a print(p) disk layout by entering the letter “p”. A display similar to the following displays:
/dev/ataraid/d0p1 * 1 13 104422 83 Linux
# /boot
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