Finding the operating system version installed and on DVD (Solaris)

25 January 2008 Leave a comment

I saw this post about finding the version of a Solaris DVD – very interesting. It relies on the fact that the DVD contains all of the packages in a unpacked format, and then goes looking for /etc/release contained within the SUNWsolnm package. His example looked like this:

# cd /Solaris_10/Product/SUNWsolnm/reloc/etc
# cat release
Solaris 10 3/05 HW2 s10s_hw2wos_05 SPARC
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 26 September 2005
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This also translates into doing the same thing on an installed system:

# cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC
Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 09 June 2006
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