Applying Patches
After you've finished the initial installation and you've rebooted the system, you can start installing all the recommended patches. Patches for Solaris come in the form of patch clusters and can be found on Sun's website at www.sunsolve.sun.com. If you are a Sun service contract customer, you can also find maintenance updates (MUs) here.
When you install patches, a failure is not always a catastrophic condition. If your patch installation fails with a “return code 2” message, the patch has already been installed on your system. A “return code 8” message indicates that the package to which the patch applies is not installed on your system. Any other failures should be investigated and the problem corrected before you attempt ...
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