rtp1@tank.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) (01/13/90)
I have a DN10000 with a 300MB disk, running SR10.1 (BSD_medium). Someday, I will want to upgrade to 10.2 (no big rush). The problem is that I only have 80mb of disk space free (not counting NFS mounted volumes on Suns), and Apollo's installation model appears to require me to upload the WHOLE 10.2 OS to the AA before doing the installation. The problem is, without deleting some of the 10.1 OS (which I can't do) I don't think I have room in the AA. I don't want to invol the thing and rebuild, and don't at the moment have money for another disk. There aren't any other Apollo's on the net that could be used for a distributed AA, either. So, is there any solution to my problem?
krowitz%richter@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (David Krowitz) (01/16/90)
The solutin to your problem is this: 1) If your system was *NOT* installed with hard links, then delete the AA to free up enough space to do the install. You only have to install BSD4.3 from the SR10.2 tapes, you do not have to install Aegis or SYS V. A large installation of all 3 environments requires some 200MB (for the full Motorola release with all SAU's). 2) If your system was install with hard links, then backup your user directories to tape. Make two copies! Write protect them! Then delete the user directories, do the install, clean up, and restore the tapes. A full Aegis plusr BSD install (including all of X Windows) requires roughly 120 MB of disk space, with about 20 MB of that X, and with more than 60 MB Aegis. You should be able to do a full BSD only install with 80 to 100 MB of working disk space. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter.mit.edu@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)