[2266] in Release_7.7_team
Heads up: Solaris Athena 8.4 and partition sizes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 17 16:20:43 2000
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 16:20:37 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200005172020.QAA01325@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
So, at some point towards the end of this summer, we will be putting
out Athena 8.4, and it will be using Solaris 7. Solaris 7 is bigger
than Solaris 2.6, and without a lot of error-prone heroics, we can't
make it fit in the partition layout some of the older Athena machines
have.
To avoid killing anyone's machine, we will put the affected machines
in a special Hesiod cluster which won't try to take the update when
the release goes to field, and we will also put a check in the update
script in case we miss any machines. People with these machines will
have to reinstall before they can take the update to 8.4. We will
contact the owners of those machines to the best of our ability.
Anyone whose machine was installed after March 1997 is not affected by
this issue, unless the machine is a Sparc Classic with a 400MB disk.
With a very small number of exceptions, no Sun Ultra machines are
affected. If you have a Sparc 4 or Sparc 5 and want to see if you are
affected, run:
add release
checkpart
You do not need to be root. The script just does "df -k /usr" and
checks whether the second column of the output is at least 102400.
Sparc Classic machines have been unsupported since December 31, 1999,
and Classics with 400MB disks will not be able to run the Athena 8.4
release without special effort. We will put such machines in the
special no-update Hesiod cluster along with the other machines, but
reinstalling them won't help you to be able to run 8.4.
If you have questions or concerns, please send mail to
release-team@mit.edu.
