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- From: clusmgr@vxcern.decnet.cern.ch (LETERTRE Christiane)
- Subject: Re: Motif & DECwindows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.101843.24540@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: LETERTRE@VXCERN.DECNET.CERN.CH
- Organization: CERN
- References: <01GR0R926K20I536CE@LSUVAX.SNCC.LSU.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:18:43 GMT
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- |> I have an 8800 and 30 3100s clustered together. I am currently
- |>running DECwindows and would like to install Motif so that some of
- |>the workstations run with Motif and the others continue to use
- |>DECwindows. All nodes share a common system disk. Can this be
- |>done? What problems will I have? How do I do this (The Motif
- |>installation notes imply that DECwindows will be deleted when
- |>I install Motif).
- |> Does anyone know what software won't work with Motif?
- |> I hope this question is not to general. Thanks to everyone.
- |> Isaac Traxler
- |> VAX Systems Manager
- |> Louisiana State University
- |> TRAXLER@LSUVAX.SNCC.LSU.EDU
- |>
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- To achieve such a goal, you will have to introduce a second system disk in your
- cluster. Then, you install MOTIF on the second disk and you make your stations
- boot from one or the other, depending if they want to use MOTIF or DECWINDOWS.
- That way you may check all your software with MOTIF. When you are sure
- everything is OK, you may move all your stations to MOTIF and get rid of the
- DECWINDOWS system disk. Caution: you need a license for each station to run
- MOTIF while there were no license for DECWINDOWS.
- We introduced MOTIF that way and we did not discover any software not running
- with MOTIF.
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- Christiane LETERTRE
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- CERN / European Laboratory for Particle Physics
- CH-1211 GENEVA 23
- Tel: (022) 767 28 54
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- Mail address: LETERTRE@VXCERN.DECNET.CERN.CH
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