cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (06/17/90)
I just upgraded my 386/ix 2.0.2 system to Interactive Unix 2.2 and had a few problems that I thought I would share with the net: NOTE: I have only had the system up for a day and still have yet to read the mountains of documentation, so some of what I say may be documented somewhere, but it is not in any of the release notes that I found. 1. If you are upgrading to one of the workstation packages, you will not get a new X11. You must use the existing X11 (should be at release 1.1) that you already have. If you are not at X11 1.1, they will happily take a few extra bucks to upgrade your X11 as a separate upgrade. 2. The new system is larger than the old stuff because of several new packages). If you are like me (i.e.: you load the entire system) the workstation developer setup now takes up a full 56MB. My old system had a 49MB combined root/usr and I thought I would need some extra space, so I repartitioned the disk to have 56MB (just a number I picked out of a hat, I didn't read it anywhere in the docs). When my installation completed I hade a total of something like 470 blocks so I couldn't even compile a new kernel. 3. The on-line manual pages are installed from a series of cpio files and if you select the removepkg option to delete the manuals, all that gets deleted is the cpio files, not the manual pages themselves. This is a two part problem: 1st: when the manuals are installed, the cpio files should be removed 2nd: when you run removepkg to delete the manuals it should delete the zillions of manual page entries in /usr/catman/[up]_man If you want to remove the manual pages (and I did, since I needed the space to be able to build a kernel) you have to: cd /usr/catman rm -rf [up]_man (always be very careful when -r is involved) 4. They changed the startup status of the keyboard so that now it starts up in <NUM-LOCK> mode so the del key gets you a "." instead of killing the process (ultil you realize what is going on and hit the numlock key or use the <Delete> key). 5. Ftp now defaults to non-binary mode. So that a transfer that I used to save a backup copy of my login directory on another machine without setting any special arguments still succeeds, but does not transfer the file correctly. Setting binary once the ftp connection is established fixes this. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170