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- From: gm35@prism.gatech.EDU (Greg Montgomery)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Advice in upgrading OS on Sparcstation wanted
- Keywords: upgrade SunOS X11 OW
- Message-ID: <64682@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:31:35 GMT
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Lines: 35
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- I am about to attempt an upgrade on a SUN Sparcstation 2 and I would like some
- advice from people who have done this before. What I"m probably going to do is
- this:
-
- 1st - Upgrade OS to 4.1.2. Right now we're running 4.1.1 SMALL_W_FIX.
- 2nd - Upgrade OW to 3.0. Right now we're running 2.0
- 3rd - Install X11R4. I know OW comes with it, but I need the profiling libaries
- and probably static versions, so I need the source to build them.
-
- I've not done any of these before, but everyone here says, "oh, know it's not
- hard. Just backup first! :-( )
- So, I would like some hints if anyone has something to say. Any thing that
- is sure to break, or is tricky, or whatever. Any info at all will be greatly
- appreciated.
-
- The X11 might be a little tricky as I probably won`t be able to install it all
- on the /usr partition as it is currently at 102% capacity (down from 103%
- yesterday!). I'm going to clear some stuff out of /usr, but I'll probably
- put some X stuff on a different fs.
-
- Please let me know if you have any knowledge I can put to good use tomorrow.
- There are other people here who know how to do this type of upgrade, so I'm
- pretty sure if I get stuck, I can get help, but I'd rather not get stuck
- in the first place!
-
- Thanks!
-
- Greg
-
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- Greg Montgomery
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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