29 Oct
2001
29 Oct
'01
1:16 p.m.
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Todd Phillips wrote:
Basically, all you do is an OnTap upgrade. Just unzip the new system files, not the boot disks, in the /etc directory, enter "download", halt the Filer. Swap heads and boot up.
So it is possible to install the Intel kernel (for the F840) on an Alpha system (the F740) and have it write the Intel bootblocks to disk? Is this officially supported? It sure would be nice to skip the interim floppy boot stage when swapping filer heads.
Anything else to watch out for if you are swapping an F740 running 5.3.7 with an F840 running 6.1.x? ZCS vs. BCS drives? I assume DOT will "do the right thing". Do quotas need to be rebuilt?
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"