rr@csuna.cs.uh.edu (Ravindran Ramachandran) (08/26/89)
Sorry to bug the net, but I badly need to get the system back up before
Monday if possible.
I have two DecStation 3100s. I finished upgrading one of them to V3.1,
but am having trouble with the other. Somehow the distribution media seems
to have been corrupted after the upgrade of the first. I have my tape drive
on a SCSI TK50, and I think the reason why it has got corrupted is because
I did not take the tape out before rebooting the first. Anyway, I am now
unable to install the UWS2.1 software in. The error I get is
"
There were fatal verification errors for subset UDWX11021
"
This caused the other Xwindow software not to be installed either.
The solution that I am hoping to achieve is that as I have already installed
the software subsets on one of my systems, I want to be able to extract it
and then install it on the other. I can move the TK50 drive between them.
Please (please)* tell me if this is possible, and if so, the solution.
Over and out,
Ravi. (A tired soul).rr@csuna.cs.uh.edu (Ravindran Ramachandran) (08/29/89)
In article <11400@uhnix1.uh.edu> rr@cs.uh.edu (Ravindran Ramachandran) writes: > > I have two DecStation 3100s. I finished upgrading one of them to V3.1, >but am having trouble with the other. Somehow the distribution media seems >to have been corrupted after the upgrade of the first. I have my tape drive >on a SCSI TK50, and I think the reason why it has got corrupted is because >I did not take the tape out before rebooting the first. Anyway, I am now >unable to install the UWS2.1 software in. The error I get is >" >There were fatal verification errors for subset UDWX11021 >" > Hi, I'm following up to my own message. Will like to clarify the problem further. (1) I have the release notes for the upgrade, thanks to a kind person, to whom I have been trying to send a reply thanking him, but which get bounced back faster than my check. (2) Yes, I did put the machines into single-user mode, et. al. I got one computer successfully working, and was trying the same procedure on the other. I finally got the other working too, but the procedure I followed is not consistent with COMPUTERS, which supposedly have a binary behaviour. What I found was that if I completely shut my system off, and reseted the SCSI connections, I could extract one, or maybe more, subsets after I bring the computer back up. Sometimes I had to shut it down and bring it back up a few times before this happened. Anyway I got them all up before Monday (today). The only thing that I can understand from this behaviour is that there is some hardware problem in my SCSI tape connection. I am going to try to extract the software subsets on my other machine to see if the tape is messed up. I am still curious to know if software subsets that have been installed using the setld command on a computer can in any way be extracted back onto tape. Thanks, all. -- Ravi.