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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: 4.0.5 A/B/C/D ???
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 20:52:01 GMT
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- In <BszLxJ.7s6@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) writes:
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- | Gack! If I read this correctly, this means that I'll need to keep *two* sets
- | of CDs kicking around, one for my R4K Indigos, and one for everything else.
-
- Well, one for all of your indigo's (r3k and r4k), and one for everything
- else. 4.0.5D will only install on supported hardware; it will refuse
- to install elsewhere.
-
- | And not only will I have to keep track of what's what, but I presume that I'll
- | actually have *three* things to deal with: The full 4.0.5D release for the R4K
- | Indigo we recently ordered; the 4.0.1=>4.0.5 maintenance release for our PIs and
- | R3K Indigos; and a different 4.0.1=>4.0.5 maintenance release for the R3K=>R4K
- | Indigo upgrade that we ordered.
-
- 4.0.5D will contain all of the maint images up through and including
- 4.0.5B (maybe C?), as well as one or 2 r4k indigo specific maint images.
- The r4k indigo maint images will require you to have 4.0.5D already
- installed, since the version # in the images changed; the others are
- the identical images that went with 4.0.5.
-
- | Anyway, is there any particular reason that 4.0.5D couldn't have been made to
- | support the old hardware, so that a common set of CDs could be used for all our
- | systems? When *will* there be a common release that supports both R4K Indigos
- | and the older stuff? 4.0.5E? 4.0.6? Any time estimate?
-
- Yes, the reason is we would have had to do far more extensive testing, and
- a number of our geometry partners and VARs would have been very upset at
- having to qualify yet another new release.
-
- 4.0.6, should there be such a release, will probably be a general release
- for all platforms, including r4k indigo and RE.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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