Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!ames!amelia!izen From: izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Steven H. Izen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: 386/ix v2.0.2 vs. v2.0.1 Summary: Be prepared to spend some time fixing things... Keywords: ISC,2.0.2,2.0.1 Message-ID: <3248@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> Date: 27 Sep 89 19:47:23 GMT References: <2102@hydra.gatech.EDU> Reply-To: izen@cwru.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Lines: 57 In article <2102@hydra.gatech.EDU> gb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Joe Bradley) writes: >Can someone post what the differences between 386/ix v2.0.2 and >v2.0.1 are? Those of us who have v2.0.1 would like to know. What is >ISC charging roughly for an upgrade? They charged me $25 + shipping for the upgrade. The only difference which I've noticed (or had the occasion to try out) was that the c-shell wildcards now work when accessing (sp?) a DOS file system. There were a bunch of other bug fixes too, but they weren't all that relevant for my system. WARNING- There is supposed to be an erratta or addendum sheet that I didn't get with my update. I wasted many hours "fixing" things that the upgrade blew away during installation: 1) the modifications I made to /etc/gettydefs were lost- So much for my nice colorful login prompts. :-) 2) /etc/issue was rebuilt. I had to delete all the text in it again. (Interactive Systems name is already all over the system :-) ) 3) The sysadm scripts for changing the status of tty ports was broken. After running the scripts, two entries for tty00 appeared in /etc/inittab. I removed the offending lines from init.base and the problem went away. 4) The kernel wouldn't build until I modified the master device file (I forget which one it was and I'm not at my machine right now) until I told it that the major device number for xw is 56. This one was supposedly on the errata sheet. ISC tech support helped me with that one. 5) The names of two operating system facilities that I had configured into my system were mysteriously renamed "L" 6) The new /dev/logi (an addiitional feature of 2.0.2 is that you don't have to buy X to get Logitech Bus Mouse support) was so sensitive to movement that even using the "slow mouse" setting in X was a joke. Solution - (Confirmed by ISC tech support after I bitched) Use the driver supplied with X. I was also told "There's no pleasing everyone :-)" 7) The root (and possibly other) crontabs were restored to default. In particular, the UUCP entries were all gone, and I had to reenter them by hand. I noticed this because my system wasn't polling another the way it was supposed to. 8) When I configure the kernel and bring up the new environment, I get warning messages that idmknod can't make the special device files for my archive tape drive. These files are already there. I haven't spent the time to track this one down because it seems relatively harmless, and I want to use my system, not play at being a systems manager :-) The funniest thing is that I thought I was ordering the X5 config update, and when my package arrived, it was the 2.0.2 upgrade! I had been trying to get that for a while (I never was able to get thru to the upgrade phone number ISC had given me). I'm still waiting on the X5 disk... -- Steve Izen: {sun,uunet}!cwjcc!skybridge!izen386!steve or steve%izen386.uucp@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu or izen@cwru.cwru.edu "My second bike is a car."