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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: 4.0.5 confusion (again, still)
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- Date: 21 Aug 92 02:14:03 GMT
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- In <BtAEL4.8B5@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) writes:
- ...
- | 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?
-
- It isn't an easy question to answer, since we don't really test it.
- Some things will matter because they depend on kernel features, bug
- fixes, structure changes, etc., but most won't. More to the point,
- many of the things you would want simply are not on the 4.0.5D CD,
- since it is hardware specific. If the other machines are Indigo's,
- you could probably use just about everything from 4.0.5D (although
- that isn't a commitment !). There are no libgl's for hardware
- not supported by 4.0.5D, for example.
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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