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Article #2Re: Third Party WREN disk/4.1 upgrade
From: Sebastian Meyer
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:10
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:10
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hibbard@hopper.Colorado.EDU (Kathie Hibbard) writes:
>I'm hoping someone can shed light on this problem for me:
>I have a DS3100 with a WREN V disk running Ultrix 3.0.
>for the last year. In order to initially get the Installation
>disk for Ultrix to see a third party drive, I had to make the necessary
>entries in the install.1 program on tape to add the drive.
>somthing like
>UNKNOWN)
> ns=48;nt=15;root_D=WREN;;
>HOWEVER, now I am trying to install Ultrix version 4.1 on the same
>setup and it will have nothing to do with this. It can't find
>the disk geometry and says it is unsupported for a system disk.
>Could anyone give me insight or information on how to upgrade
>this machine with 4.1?
Ultrix 4.x calls unknown disks 'RZxx' while older Ultrixes used
'UNKNOWN'. The name to use appears in these tables appearing during
installation. That's the only new thing, replace 'UNKNOWN' by 'RZxx'
and it works as it did since 2.1 .
BTW: Why don't you install Ultrix4.2A???
sebastian
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!math.fu-berlin.de!risc4!meyer From: meyer@risc4.physik.fu-berlin.de (Sebastian Meyer) Newsgroups: cu.decstation.managers,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Third Party WREN disk/4.1 upgrade Message-ID: <NGD5SUB@math.fu-berlin.de> Date: 23 Jul 92 14:10:49 GMT References: <1992Jul22.151857.28580@colorado.edu> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Distribution: usa Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 31