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- From: sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt)
- Subject: Re: 4.0.5 confusion (again, still)
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:51:04 GMT
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- [ Dave Olson ]
-
- | Of course they have 4.0.5A! 4.0.5D isn't released yet, nor is
- | the r4k indigo itself. I don't know how you arranged to get
- | the disk, etc. early, but clearly the person with whom you
- | arranged it misunderstood either you, or the situation.
-
- To be fair to all involved, it was *me* that misunderstood: I knew
- that we would need 4.0.5D, but thought that SGI made a mistake. It
- turned out, our telesales guy knew what we needed, and *also* knew
- that they wouldn't be able to ship the D release with our disk. So
- he's made arrangements for our local office to help us out. So, it
- was a case of me not knowing that he knew, and of me assuming that
- he didn't. He was actually on top of things, just fine. (Funny
- how we techies tend to have a knee-jerk tendency to assume that all
- sales people don't know what's going on, isn't it ...)
-
- | As I recall, 4.0.5D has everything different except for motif_eoe
- | and other 'non-OS' things, such as nck, netls, explorer, and
- | inventor_eoe. Hmm; let me say that differently. In general, there
- | is no rule. It all depends on what was fixed. I think that for
- | 4.0.5A, just eoe1 and eoe2 had differences from 4.0.5. I'm not
- | at all sure what the story is for 4.0.5C.
-
- Hmm... I guess that doesn't really answer what I wanted to know,
- but that's because I didn't really explain just what it was I'd
- like to do: Since many of our systems have *tiny* system disks
- (several have Wren-IIIs!), we put only the most important stuff
- in / and /usr, and NFS-mount the rest. I assume that everything
- that goes into the kernel is likely to differ among the various
- 4.0.5 releases, but that doesn't matter to us since it wouldn't
- be on the shared-via-NFS disk anyway.
-
- I guess what I'm driving at is: Which of the non-kernel things
- that appear on the 4.0.5D CD cannot be used by a system running
- the 4.0.5C kernel; and which things that appear on the 4.0.5C CD
- cannot be used by a system running the 4.0.5D kernel? Is this
- even an easy question to answer?
-
- | | Sorry if I seem rather dense about all this, but I am rather confused
- | | about what's the most recent officially-supported release for some of
- | | our hardware configurations.
- |
- | You aren't the only one, by a long shot.
-
- Great! Confusion loves company! ;-)
-
- Mark Bartelt 416/978-5619
- Canadian Institute for mark@cita.toronto.edu
- Theoretical Astrophysics mark@cita.utoronto.ca
-
- "Sheep not busy being shorn are busy frying" - Dylan, at a NZ lamb barbecue
-