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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Instant Ignition for series 300
Message-ID: <1392@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 90 22:44:05 GMT
References: <4733@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <220019@hpubmaa.HP.COM> <379@limbo.Intuitive.Com> <3529@csccat.UUCP>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <3529@csccat.UUCP> jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler) writes:
>Really?! I just spent the better part of 3 hours backing up and preparing to
>update 6.5 to 7.0.. I read all the documentation that has been piece mealed 
>out to me, I read the READ ME FIRST... Only to get to the last page and
>find no information on how to do an UPDATE. I tried all the old stuff,
>getting GETTOOLS with lifcp.. but that didn't work.. I look somemore at
>the documentation... still nothing.. if you what to install, then it's
>no problem or so it appears. I will be calling my Rep in the morning,
>but jeez am I the only one having any problems with a simple update?

The update process is very clearly described in the new "System Administrator
Tasks" manual.  An easy to follow step by step description tells you how to
get the TOOLS off the update tape (which is now in 'tar' format --
not in 'lif' anymore!) and how to proceed from there.  I found the
new update tools to be *much* better than the old ones (which, at least for
6.5, weren't totally useless).  In case you still need to install/update from
pre 7.0 tapes, the TOOLS package contains an 'update.6.5' that you can
use.  I have done so updating Starbase Display Lists and didn't have any
problems at all with that (either).

Hope this helps.

Bo

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