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- Subject: My most common installation question....
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- From: "j.lance Wilkinson, 814-865-1818"
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:18 -0500 (EST)
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- I swear I ask somebody this question every time I install PMDF. What's the
- answer this release (v4.1)?
-
- I have a completely homogenous cluster, per the definition on page 1-4
- of the v4.1 Installation guide, first paragraph in section 1.3.2.
-
- Can I simply do *one* VMSINSTAL run, on the primary member of the
- cluster, or must I run VMSINTAL on that primary member (a VAX9420),
- then do the same thing all over again on our VAX6420, our VAXStation
- 3100, and all eleven of our VAXStation 4000 VLC's?
-
- I know I'll still have to stop PMDF and all other network mail
- operations on all cluster members, then reinstall/restart using
- SYS$STARTUP:PMDF_STARTUP.COM on each cluster member, after the
- VMSINTAL and post-installation tasks. I'm not worried about that;
- I just think it's silly and a significant waste of time to run
- VMSINTAL 14 times with the same results each time -- or *are* they
- really the same results each time (construction of the PMDF_ROOT:[...]
- directory tree)?
-
- If I sound really dense on this, I'll quote from, again, page 1-4
- of the Installation guide, first paragraph in section 1.3.2:
-
- "If you have a completely homogenous VAXcluster, ...,
- installing PMDF is essentially the same as on a single
- node. All individual host names are essentially aliases
- for a single host, and should be rewritten to the local
- host name."
-
- It *sounds* to me like all I need to do is *one* VMSINTAL, followed
- by taking care to include all my post-installation tasks (running
- CONFIGURE, editing PMDF.CNF, etc.). But given that JNET needs to
- be VMSINTAL'd on every node, and I clearly remember doing the same
- for PMDF back when we only had the 9420 and 6420 (as well as PMDF
- v3.1), I don't want to make the mistake, while doing this in the middle
- of the night on a weekend when nobody @innosoft is able to answer
- the phones and I have myself screwed....;-{
-
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