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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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