Hello, my first blog will be ... yes, live upgrade!
Live upgrade, I like it. I have been using it for years.
There is a GUI tool to perform live upgrade, a little trick is, you need run xterm first, then type lu in xterm window.
$ xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
$ su
Password:
# xterm
Then in xterm,
# lu
By this GUI tool, you need not to remember the command names. And it is very straight forward. I tested it on both Solaris 10 and Solaris Express developer edition.
For more info about live upgrade, search document at http://docs.sun.com/