Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Interactive 2.2 install query Keywords: Interactive 2.2 install problems? Message-ID: <1990Jul07.125218.24439@virtech.uucp> Date: 7 Jul 90 12:52:18 GMT References: <6417@gaboon.UUCP> Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA Lines: 33 In article <6417@gaboon.UUCP> asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) writes: > Has anyone done the upgrade rather than the destructive reinstall on a > big ESDI disk? Any problems with mail and news not working? I did the upgrade on a 680MB ESDI drive and had just a couple of problems ( like some of my crontab entries got blown away, my gettydefs file got blown away,etc). If you have room, make sure you have an on-line backup copy of your root FS so that you have immediate access to whatever gets blown away. BTW - by blown away I mean that the file on the update disk replaces the equivalent pre-existing file. We installed 2.2 and had no problems with most of the stuff that had already been configured on the system (mail, news, uucp, even the pre-existing kernel config stuff). Our only complaint (other than the #! bug that I reported before) is that our Archive 60MB tape no longer works (using either the new driver included with 2.2 or with the old driver that worked under 2.0.2). ISC is looking into the problem. Otherwise the system is running great. We have seen no chane in percieved performance (i.e. it hasn't changed, but we haven't run a benchmark to verify it). All of our other peripherals (including WD ethernet, Sigma Designs Laser View Display, DPT caching controller, and Equinox Megaport) work flawlessly. 2.0.2 and 2.2 co-exist on the same network without any problems. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170