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From: bobg@rains.wpd.sgi.com (Bob Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: help with IRIX 3.3.1 update!!
Message-ID: <1991May8.021845.13003@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 8 May 91 02:18:45 GMT
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In article <9105062249.AA18971@libra.cs.nps.navy.mil>, adaptive@libra.cs.nps.navy.mil (zyda res acct) writes:
|> Hi,
|> yesterday I installed IRIX 3.3 on my 4D/25TG using autoinst. When I
|> loaded the 3.3.1 maintenance release I received the following error
|> message:
|> 
|> >Pre-Installation check failure:
|> >The following subsystems cannot be installed beacause they are
|> >replaced by newer versions already on the disk. If you want to
|> >install the older versions, you must remove newer versions first.
|> >
|> >	maint1.dev_man.cc		C compiler and support
|> >	maint1.dev_sw.cc
|> >	maint1.dev_sw.crypt		Security Admin Lib
|> >	maint1.dev_sw.sccs		SCCS utilities
|> >	maint1.nfs_man.nfs		NFS support
|> >	maint1.nfs_sw.dskless	Diskless support
|> >	maint1.nfs_sw.nfs		NFS support
|> >	maint1.nfs_sw.yp		Yellow pages
|> 
|> I am not a systems admin type and would like to know if anyone has
|> run into this problem. Why would the 3.3.1 maintenance update tape
|> contain older versions of software that has been previously installed?
|> Am I missing the boat here?
|> 
|> thanks,
|> george dabrowski

The automatic option on maintenance images detects if you have already
installed the product and marks the subsystems as default install if they are
out of date.  The symptom you describe would indicate to me that perhaps
the system you received already had a maintenance release later than
4D1-3.3.1.  Systems shipping from SGI today are installed with 4D1-3.3.2.

Bob Green