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- From: rogerj@cs.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda)
- Subject: Swapping monitors AFTER the initial ULTRIX install
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.220028.10156@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:00:28 GMT
- Lines: 59
-
- DECers,
-
- I have a question that DEC, to their credit, tried to help
- with but just couldn't appreciate our circumstances.
-
-
- HW: DS5000-120
- SW: Ultrix 4.2a+STUFF THAT COMES WITH IT. All on CD-ROMs/RRD42
-
- The problem is that we don't own these CDs, the campus ESL
- CSLG program does--so we install what we can and then
- hand back the CDs. If we ever need a change, we have to
- get the CDs back.
-
- So usual practice is to extract EVRYTHING on the CDs and
- that way we don't need the CDs again.
-
- We want to be able to have a color monitor OR monochrome OR grey-scale.
- During the install process, the program asks what type of monitor
- we have. If we select one, I assume the last line in our /etc/ttys
- file gets changed for that frame buffer's X-server (or lack of an FB).
-
- But how can we extract what we need to be able to swap monitors
- at will?
-
- DEC's answer was complete:
-
- ------------DEC ANSWER--------------------
-
- The quickest and the most fail-safe
- method is to de-install and then reinstall the server software.
- /etc/setld -d UDWSER425 /* v4.2a */
- /etc/setld -l /dev/nrmt0h UDWSER425 /* v4.2a */
-
- /etc/setld -d UDWSER420 /* v4.2 */
- /etc/setld -l /dev/nrmt0h UDWSER420 /* v4.2 */
-
- This will prompt you for type of monitor.
-
- ------------DEC ANSWER--------------------
-
- This is true, but assumes we always have the CDs around.
- If we mount the CD, then do setld -x for all of it, will it
- overwrite files we need for one type of monitor? Has anyone
- else had this problem? Can we rename the SUBSET and then re-setld
- and keep three copies of the subset around for three type of
- monitors?
-
- Any help appreciated!!
-
- --Roger
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