Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cos!hadron!decuac!felix!info-ultrix From: celozzi@CADILLAC.CAD.MCC.COM (Dominic Celozzi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Ultrix 2.3 vs. patches Message-ID: <54084@felix.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 88 16:07:50 GMT References: <53025@felix.UUCP> Sender: info-ultrix@felix.UUCP Reply-To: celozzi@CADILLAC.CAD.MCC.COM (Dominic Celozzi) Organization: MCC VLSI-CAD Program, Austin, TX Lines: 26 Approved: zemon@felix.UUCP Reply-Path: In response to problems found with Ultrix 2.3 - my God yes - DO NOT install Ultrix 2.3 if you are running DECnet. My home site, Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group in Baltimore had made the mistake of attepting to install Ultrix 2.3. What a nightmare. As with most sites, they were running DECnet-Ultrix. Once the installation was finished, the system complained about fsck needing to be run manually. The only file partition allowed to be mounted was the root partition. (Flame On!) Now hear this, DEC was smart enough to have in their installation script the command "whoami" which resides in /usr/ucb/whoami. Now, you tell me, who in their right mind would reference a command not in the root partition during the installation of a system. (Flame Off) The system became so corrupted by the end of the pathing and removing of patches that I beleive the system administrator was forced to completely reinstall Ultrix 2.2! Bottom line, if you are using DECnet-Ultrix and wish to install Ultrix 2.3, by all means contact the Ultrix Support Group first and ask if they have come up with the proper procedure to do so yet. Dominic Celozzi MCC VLSI CAD Program [512] 343-0978 P.O. Box 200195, Austin, TX 78720 ARPA: celozzi@mcc.com UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!celozzi