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- From: meyer@risc4.physik.fu-berlin.de (Sebastian Meyer)
- Newsgroups: cu.decstation.managers,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Third Party WREN disk/4.1 upgrade
- Message-ID: <NGD5SUB@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 14:10:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.151857.28580@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
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- hibbard@hopper.Colorado.EDU (Kathie Hibbard) writes:
-
- >I'm hoping someone can shed light on this problem for me:
- >I have a DS3100 with a WREN V disk running Ultrix 3.0.
- >for the last year. In order to initially get the Installation
- >disk for Ultrix to see a third party drive, I had to make the necessary
- >entries in the install.1 program on tape to add the drive.
- >somthing like
-
- >UNKNOWN)
- > ns=48;nt=15;root_D=WREN;;
-
- >HOWEVER, now I am trying to install Ultrix version 4.1 on the same
- >setup and it will have nothing to do with this. It can't find
- >the disk geometry and says it is unsupported for a system disk.
- >Could anyone give me insight or information on how to upgrade
- >this machine with 4.1?
-
- Ultrix 4.x calls unknown disks 'RZxx' while older Ultrixes used
- 'UNKNOWN'. The name to use appears in these tables appearing during
- installation. That's the only new thing, replace 'UNKNOWN' by 'RZxx'
- and it works as it did since 2.1 .
-
- BTW: Why don't you install Ultrix4.2A???
-
- sebastian
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