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From: mike@bellcorebellcore.com (Mike Lukacs 21341)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: 10.2 to 10.3 upgrade q's (help)
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.201643.9174@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 20:16:43 GMT
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In article <1991Apr1.191325.1239@Stardent.COM>, donaldg@Stardent.COM
(Donald Gale) writes:
|> Howdy,
|> 
|>     We've currently got an OS10.2 network running on approximately
|> 60 Apollo nodes (3000's, 3500's, 4500's). We would like to upgrade
|> a couple of nodes to OS 10.3 to run Mentor Boardstation and Package
|> station.
|>     I'd like to know what people's experience has been with upgrading
|> 10.2 nodes to 10.3 nodes. Specifically, should we strive to maintain
|> Don Gale - Stardent Computer, Inc.

Unless you have a very good reason to keep 10.2 (ie: some third party software
vendor has told you it WONT work with my software. [not "We Don't Know" but
literally "we tried and it doesn't"]) then don't bother, go fully to SR10.3.
We all remember thw nightmare of the 9.7 -> 10.x transition and have become
leary of the upgrade process.  In this case, caution is not needed.  SR10.3
is VERY close to 10.2. Virtually nothing should be affected.  I converted a
mixed ring of 10.1, 10.2, and 10.0p nodes over to 10.3 about 2 months ago and
had no problems whatsoever, either while the ring was running mixed, or after
transition.  The one exception was flakey availability of the registry server.
This was cured by running just one glbd on the same node as the master rgyd,
and making sure that they knew about each other.  In the last two months, our
rate of software problems has gone way down.  10.3 is a good stable functional
OS and the transition pain is minimal.  DO IT!

				Good Luck,
					Mike Lukacs

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