Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!rutgers!mephisto!prism!fsu!sun8!nall From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: The Upgrade Process Keywords: Problem WAITING for P-H Message-ID: <603@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 26 Mar 90 14:07:08 GMT References: <14589@nigel.udel.EDU> <589@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> <3867@plains.UUCP> <12576281204007@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <6120@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@fsu.scri.fsu.edu Reply-To: nall@sun8.UUCP (John Nall) Organization: Florida State University Lines: 31 In article <6120@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >boxes to measure. I could solve the "delay" problem by not posting >anything until the week before P-H has the boxes in stock. Software >companies also have long delays between test versions and the final product. >The difference here is that I am prepared to air all my dirty laundry in >public. > >Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) Please don't not post until P-H has the boxes in stock! In spite of negative comments regarding the upgrade process (some of which have come from me), it is far, far better than waiting for the official release! And it really is not that bad, once it has been done once. The ones that I worry about are the huddled masses, longing to be free from 1.1, that try the upgrade path. So I think the moral of this whole Re: The Upgrade Process thread is as follows: (a) If you are not at least up to 1.3, then don't try it. Just buy 1.3 from P-H. (b) If you are at 1.3 or higher, then get the upgrade files from one of the archives. (c) someone should come up with a "helpful hints" which allow first-time upgraders to fix the most common problems (libc.a out of order, chmem's needed, etc) By the way, I noted a negative comment on the net the other day about how the P-H charge is high. Don't remember who made it, and it doesn't matter anyway. But check the prices on *every other* brand of Unix! With the exception of Gnu, they're all higher. And not near so good. Minix 1.5, on my 8-megabyte 386 with an 80-meg hard disk, does everything that I want. -- John W. Nall | Supercomputation Computations Research Institute nall@nu.cs.fsu.edu | Florida State University #include | Tallahassee, FL 32306