gb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Joe Bradley) (09/27/89)
Can someone post what the differences between 386/ix v2.0.2 and
v2.0.1 are? Those of us who have v2.0.1 would like to know. What is
ISC charging roughly for an upgrade?
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G.J. (Joe) Bradley, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
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INTERNET: gb7@prism.gatech.eduizen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Steven H. Izen) (09/28/89)
In article <2102@hydra.gatech.EDU> gb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Joe Bradley) writes: >Can someone post what the differences between 386/ix v2.0.2 and >v2.0.1 are? Those of us who have v2.0.1 would like to know. What is >ISC charging roughly for an upgrade? They charged me $25 + shipping for the upgrade. The only difference which I've noticed (or had the occasion to try out) was that the c-shell wildcards now work when accessing (sp?) a DOS file system. There were a bunch of other bug fixes too, but they weren't all that relevant for my system. WARNING- There is supposed to be an erratta or addendum sheet that I didn't get with my update. I wasted many hours "fixing" things that the upgrade blew away during installation: 1) the modifications I made to /etc/gettydefs were lost- So much for my nice colorful login prompts. :-) 2) /etc/issue was rebuilt. I had to delete all the text in it again. (Interactive Systems name is already all over the system :-) ) 3) The sysadm scripts for changing the status of tty ports was broken. After running the scripts, two entries for tty00 appeared in /etc/inittab. I removed the offending lines from init.base and the problem went away. 4) The kernel wouldn't build until I modified the master device file (I forget which one it was and I'm not at my machine right now) until I told it that the major device number for xw is 56. This one was supposedly on the errata sheet. ISC tech support helped me with that one. 5) The names of two operating system facilities that I had configured into my system were mysteriously renamed "L" 6) The new /dev/logi (an addiitional feature of 2.0.2 is that you don't have to buy X to get Logitech Bus Mouse support) was so sensitive to movement that even using the "slow mouse" setting in X was a joke. Solution - (Confirmed by ISC tech support after I bitched) Use the driver supplied with X. I was also told "There's no pleasing everyone :-)" 7) The root (and possibly other) crontabs were restored to default. In particular, the UUCP entries were all gone, and I had to reenter them by hand. I noticed this because my system wasn't polling another the way it was supposed to. 8) When I configure the kernel and bring up the new environment, I get warning messages that idmknod can't make the special device files for my archive tape drive. These files are already there. I haven't spent the time to track this one down because it seems relatively harmless, and I want to use my system, not play at being a systems manager :-) The funniest thing is that I thought I was ordering the X5 config update, and when my package arrived, it was the 2.0.2 upgrade! I had been trying to get that for a while (I never was able to get thru to the upgrade phone number ISC had given me). I'm still waiting on the X5 disk... -- Steve Izen: {sun,uunet}!cwjcc!skybridge!izen386!steve or steve%izen386.uucp@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu or izen@cwru.cwru.edu "My second bike is a car."
izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Steven H. Izen) (09/29/89)
In article <3248@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> I wrote: >In article <2102@hydra.gatech.EDU> gb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Joe Bradley) writes: >>Can someone post what the differences between 386/ix v2.0.2 and >>v2.0.1 are? Those of us who have v2.0.1 would like to know. What is >WARNING- There is supposed to be an erratta or addendum sheet that I didn't >get with my update. I wasted many hours "fixing" things that the upgrade >blew away during installation: [List of items 1) - 8) deleted] 9) The /etc/default/tar file was also blown away. I had to update that to make my tape drive (Archive 60 meg internal) the default tar device and to set the media limits >The funniest thing is that I thought I was ordering the X5 config update, >and when my package arrived, it was the 2.0.2 upgrade! I had been trying >to get that for a while (I never was able to get thru to the upgrade phone >number ISC had given me). I'm still waiting on the X5 disk... Well I finally got the x5 update. ISC had to fax me the docs that go with it. Get this- they ran out of them!?! For a product that was only released last thursday (according to Brian of ISC tech support infamy :-) ), one would think that there would be a few more copies of a thirteen page document available. After all, the disks were there, why not the documentation? Anyway, enough flaming on ISC distribution. The tech people seem (at least on a first nights worth of experimentation) to have done a good job. The asy ports actually work bidirectionally! And they even support up to 16 of them. What's more, they even tell you how to add com3 and com4, even if you have to share interrupts. Incidentally, the docs say that the X5 update will only work with 2.0.2, not with 2.0.1, so it's a good thing they sent me the upgrade by mistake. -- Steve Izen: {sun,uunet}!cwjcc!skybridge!izen386!steve or steve%izen386.uucp@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu or izen@cwru.cwru.edu "My second bike is a car."
gb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Joe Bradley) (09/29/89)
In article <3271@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> izen@cwru.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes: >In article <3248@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> I wrote: >>In article <2102@hydra.gatech.EDU> gb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Joe Bradley) writes: >>>Can someone post what the differences between 386/ix v2.0.2 and >>>v2.0.1 are? Those of us who have v2.0.1 would like to know. > >Well I finally got the x5 update... Now I need to know, what is the X5 update?! -- G.J. (Joe) Bradley, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332 UUCP: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!gb7 INTERNET: gb7@prism.gatech.edu
izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Steven H. Izen) (09/29/89)
In article <2160@hydra.gatech.EDU> gb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Joe Bradley) writes: >Now I need to know, what is the X5 update?! The X5 update is ISC's fix to the asy problem that many of us 386/ix users have been moaning and groaning about here on the net. They send it to you for just the cost of the postage. It seems to work. -- Steve Izen: {sun,uunet}!cwjcc!skybridge!izen386!steve or steve%izen386.uucp@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu or izen@cwru.cwru.edu "My second bike is a car."