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Re: OS problem with athena machine ElValle.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Apr 13 05:22:05 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: "Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias" <muchomas@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ops@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Apr 1998 07:47:54 EDT."
<352E06EA.7C67EFE7@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 05:22:01 EDT
> > This problem should go away if you upgrade ElValle to Athena version
> > 8.1. In 8.1 /tmp has been moved onto the /var partition which is much
> > bigger than /.
> Sounds great. So, how do I upgrade?
Shutdown X, by hitting CTRL-P at the normal xlogin window. Then login
as "root" (you can find out the default passwd by running 'tellme root'
when logged in as you.).
Attach the 8.1 system packs with the following two commands:
/bin/athena/detach -h -n -a
/bin/athena/attach -h -n -O dev-sun4sys-81
Actually perform the update (note that this will take 30 to 60
minutes, and the workstation will reboot once inthe middle of this
process) with the following command:
/srvd/update_ws
This may ask you to press <RETURN> or prompt you for other information,
but, the prompts should be intelligible.
once the update is done you will be given a shaell prompt in case you
want to check on anything. Once you are ready you should hit
Control-D and the workstation will reboot and come up running 8.1
Jonathon
