Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!ames!dftsrv!jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov!jim From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: A/UX gripe Message-ID: <4631@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 27 Mar 91 12:45:32 GMT References: <12665@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Mar22.064217.16497@panix.uucp> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 31 In article urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: }In comp.unix.aux, article <1991Mar22.064217.16497@panix.uucp>, } alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes: }< }< With that said, be advised: Clear the Decks. I just spent 4 days with about }< 15 hours of sleep, 5 meals, and one shower, trying to install A/UX 2.0.1. }< Today I'm recovering, and tomorrow, perhaps with some emotional detachment, }< I'll try to post a description of what went wrong so that others don't get }< burned too. But if I'm not so detached I'm sure you'll all understand. :-) }< }Heh -- I had a day-long fight with the floppy upgrade last week. } } }The installer insisted on not having any file systems mounted, being in }single-user mode, overestimating the required free space, and replacing }/bin/ksh before starting the actual installation. } Does the tape upgrade also insist on no file systems being mounted? My /usr directory is a seperate FS so I need it there when I upgrade (course, I could just mount /usr on /mnt and then copy the needed files from /usr on root to /usr on /mnt, but this is very ugly) -- ======================================================================= #include =:^) Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1 jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771 "Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon. In many fields of medicine nowadays, a dose of dynamite can do a world of good."