kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar) (03/27/90)
About a month ago I was upgrading two Vax 8250's from Ultrix 3.0 to 3.1.
For odd reasons, one had been running 3.0 for months and one had run 3.0
for about two days and then had reverted to 2.3 (or something like that.)
The 3.0 disk was taken off line but left intact. The machine that had
been running 3.0 flawlessly upgraded to 3.1 with no problems. Not so the
other machine.
I rebooted the Vax off of the 3.0 disk and it came up correctly. I then
attempted to install 3.1 over 3.0. The BASE installation failed with
an error message that indicated that the 3.0 BASE was not installed correctly.
(I undortunately do not have the exact message.) Well, 3.0 is running
at the moment but I'd really like to get 3.1 running. Can anyone give
me some ideas as to why the installation would think that the 3.0 BASE
is wrong and how to fix it so I can run 3.1?
Thanks.....
-David C. Kovar
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"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (03/27/90)
In article <2348@husc6.harvard.edu> kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar) writes: > > About a month ago I was upgrading two Vax 8250's from Ultrix 3.0 to 3.1. > > I rebooted the Vax off of the 3.0 disk and it came up correctly. I then > attempted to install 3.1 over 3.0. The BASE installation failed with > an error message that indicated that the 3.0 BASE was not installed correctly. I'd suggest starting with a setld -i on each machine then doing a diff to see what's different about the 3.0 modules loaded. If that doesn't make it obvoius, try the install again as "sh -x setld ..." using tee or script to save the output, then try to see exactly what it's objecting too. Unless it's something obvious, you'll probably end up reinstalling 3.0 or perhaps you could simply duplicate the working 3.1 system... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)