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From: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: using installation tape for disaster recovery
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Date: 18 Sep 90 14:22:17 GMT
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In article <2748@unccvax.uncc.edu> wdg@unccvax.uncc.edu (Doug Gullett) writes:
>In article <9009171852.AA03774@garnet.berkeley.edu>, rusty@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU (rusty wright) writes:
>> Ultrix 4.0 on my MicroVAX II/GPX and found out after it was too late
>> that 4.0 won't work on an RD53.)  
>
>Is this true??  4.0 just arrived and is in a waiting pattern for a while.
>If it does not run on RD53s we are in big trouble. Is this documented
>somewhere (say the release notes)??o

Ultrix 4.0 _will_ run on RD53's.  The catch is that you need at least
2 of them and you need to do an advanced install and put /usr on the
second RD53.  I'm running Ultrix 4.0 on a VAXstationII/GPX with three
RD53's.  I'm using the third for /home and X11R4.

Mike


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