kennedy@tolerant.UUCP (Bill Kennedy) (03/09/88)
This is a follow up to an earlier posting concerning trouble getting the
unlimited user upgrade to Merge/386 to work. I stand by my earlier
comments regarding documentation and obscurities but Microport Tech
Support got me going. I'll add to that that it was not their intimate
knowledge of the product, it was more "Gee, I never heard of that before,
if you can find a similar system on which Merge has _never_ been installed,
just see if you can install unlimited". I found one, installed it, and it
works without VM86_DIED or any of the terrible things it does on the system
where it must work. We speculated that the situation was caused by first
upgrading run time, uninstalling limited Merge and then trying to install
unlimited Merge. That seemed to make sense to me but it sure didn't make
any sense to Merge.
So the answer is to get the unlimited version of Merge/386 and just install
it over limited run time. Now I'm curious as to why I was told to buy the
unlimited upgrade to run time since unlimited Merge has it built in... If,
indeed, that's the right approach then the numbers start to be more reasonable.
I had whined about the aggregate sum it took to do V/386 versus Xenix and if
the run time upgrade isn't necessary then it starts making more $$ sense.
The opinions are only mine, Tolerant is nice enough to let me use their gear.
Bill Kennedy {rutgers,cbosgd,ihnp4!petro}!ssbn!bill or bill@ssbn.WLK.COM