nasima@gtmvax.UUCP (Nasima Ahmad) (11/23/88)
Reply-to: nasima@gtmvax.UUCP (Nasima Ahmad)
Soon I will upgrade Ultrix version 1.2 to 2.2. In the documentation it states
that certain system files are no longer compatible, not because these are site
specific files. For instance, /usr/lib/crontab, /etc/fstab, /etc/rc.local,
/etc/termcap and /etc/ttys. If you have upgraded the OPS recently please let me
know what type of changes, if any, need to be made to these files. There were
no further explanation in the documentation, and I would like to know this
information before I install version 2.2.
- If anyone has upgraded Ultrix lately let me know how accurate is the
documentation.
- If anyone has any war stories or problem reports about upgrading Ultrix,
please let me know. D. Allen [CGL]) (12/04/88)
Reply-to: idallen@watcgl.UUCP (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) We run Ultrix 2.0-1 kernels with 4.3BSD everything else on our VS2000 and MVII/GPX workstations. Most of the machines here at UW run 4.3BSD with our UW fixes in them; we couldn't live on Ultrix with the stock stuff and no source so we got rid of as much Ultrix as we could and put on the 4.3BSD stuff for which we had source. We'd run full Waterloo 4.3BSD on everything, except at the time we got the VS2000 only Ultrix kernels ran on it. So we keep the Ultrix kernel because we have to. We got some VS3200 and VS8000 workstations that needed Ultrix 2.4 and had to boot over the net. So, I installed the 2.4 RIS stuff on one of our 2.0-1/4.3 GPX systems and ran /etc/ris to add the 3200 and 8000 clients. The resulting load files didn't quite netload correctly. I discovered a couple of system .h files that had changed from 2.0-1 to 2.4; replacing these with the 2.4 versions and re-running /etc/ris created loader files that allowed the VS3200 and the VS8000 to boot Ultrix 2.4 over the net from the hybrid 2.0-1/4.3 GPX system. Now that tahoe supports the both the VS2000 and VS3200 series, maybe we won't have to run Ultrix kernels any more. Not having source is a real pain. -- -IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) IDAllen@watcgl.UWaterloo.CA IDAllen@watcgl.Waterloo.edu Computer Graphics Lab University of Waterloo Ontario, Canada