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- From: grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
- Subject: 'fitset' refuses to load Ultrix 4.3
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- Date: 8 Nov 92 22:34:56
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- Here's the situation. I'm attempting to upgrade a 4.2a DS5000/120 with
- a CDC Wren V. chpt -q sez:
-
- Current partition table:
- partition bottom top size overlap
- a 0 34527 34528 c,f,g,h
- b 34528 125163 90636 c
- c 0 1195545 1195546 a,b,d,e,f,g,h
- d 125164 556763 431600 c
- e 556764 1195531 638768 c
- f 0 0 0 a,c,g,h
- g 0 0 0 a,c,f,h
- h 0 0 0 a,c,f,g
-
-
- I'm attempting to do the upgrade using RIS. The first time through,
- everything went fine until it came to csh, at which point it barfed
- because I was running it (yeah, stupid). So, I sez, lets try again.
-
- Now, however, ``fitset'' keeps telling me I don't have enough space in
- the root partition to load up the new software. But, I had ~8.5Mb,
- which was enough the first time around. It appears that 'fitset'
- doesn't account for the fact that it's going to get back *lots* of
- space by over-writing existing binaries.
-
- Furthermore, I can't find any way of having 'fitset' give me an
- intelligible answer about *how much more* free space I need.
-
- Since 'fitset' won't let me get any further in the 'setld' procedure,
- I thought I'd ask for ideas. Any clues?
-
-
- I can't really reduce / any more w/o removing important things. I
- setld -d'd all the junk I really don't use (like kerberos, etc) -- as
- a consequence, I can't 'rsh' into my machine anymore (rlogin works
- fine), and I'm learly of uninstalling anything else to get this to
- work.
-
-
- Dirk Grunwald Asst. Prof, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
-