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From: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: re: Beware Sr10.3
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Date: 6 Mar 91 21:54:39 GMT
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> Why is there always major problems upgrading the operating 
> system?  
> Why do other users in the USA say they have had no problems 
> upgrading to sr10.3? (previous news)
> 
> Two major problems have been encountered -
> 
> 	1) The upgrade somehow managed to whipe our registry
> 	clean except for 5 accounts!! This process was also repeated at
> 	another site on campus with the same results.
> 	Question: Are all the other sites which upgraded  and had no
> 		problem open or closed sites?
We installed as 'open' and then locked it up w/ a hand-made inprot template

> 	Question: Did we get a bum distribution?
>         The problem took 4 programmer days to restore, with no answers 
> 	from our local Australian Support office.
I'd say that you either got a bad distribution, or that you (someone else?)
has modified some of the installation, perhaps by using scripts that do the
actual install.  If somebody put in / left in a call to crrgy, that would
certainly screw things up.  Another possibility:  did you boot off the
cartridge tape provided?  We didn't (and you certainly don't have to), so
there might be a problem if you start up that way.
 		
> 	2) sr10.3 and lpd do not mix. Our printers require full 
> 	XON/XOFF so they can tell the apollo when their buffer is full.
> 	So they need to have -insync   (tctl command) BUT each time
> 	a file is sent to any printer on any sio line insync is reset
> 	to FALSE thus some pages become lost...
> 	Question: Does anyone out there use lpd and have printers 
> 		directly connected to apollo sio lines?
'fraid not (yet).
 
> 	Question: Do most apollo users only use AEGIS and not Unix?
We use primarily Aegis.  However, even mor than that, we use the Mentor
print servers, which act a lot like pre-sr10 Aegis servers.  I think that
a good chunk of the sites use Aegis, and a good chunk use Unix.  Apollo
has traditionally given more support to Aegis (my personal opinion).  That's
why it hurts so bad now that they're going away from it.

-- jt --
John Thompson
Honeywell, SSEC
Plymouth, MN  55441
thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com

Me?  Represent Honeywell?  You've GOT to be kidding!!!