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From: ronc@cerebus.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Upgrade experiences?
Message-ID: <759@cerebus.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 18:43:33 GMT
References: <653@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Reply-To: ronc@cerebus.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <653@orion.cf.uci.edu> grich@orion.cf.uci.edu (John Mangrich) writes:
>This Summer we will be upgrading to Dynix 3.0, and later on going from the Balance
>to the new Symmetry processors.  We are interested in hearing from anyone
>who has already done either or both of these things, particularly if you 
>encountered problems or have hints before starting.

Going to 3.0 was no more difficult than upgrading to any other major
release.  I seem to recall that you couldn't move your /etc files
directly from 2.1 to 3.0.  I think you should print out your fstab,
rc, and rc.local and use those as a basis for hacking the 3.0 version
of those files, rather than copying them directly over.

Keep in mind, also, that some of the stuff that used to be in /etc
is now (with 3.0) in /usr/etc.

We have not yet upgraded to Symmetry (req was just signed off recently)
so I can't give you any hints there.  Maybe in a month or so.



				Ron
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