[740] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Upgrading an O/S with package?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wallace Colyer)
Wed Apr 22 20:18:31 1992
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1992 19:38:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Wallace Colyer <wally+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: <AdxS61u00WD54KvC9=@andrew.cmu.edu>
Sometimes you need to do staged package updates that look something like:
1) update with new rc and reboot
2) new rc changes bootblocks because the new version of the os needs
different boot blocks.
3) update with new os
4) reboot
Once I remember the process having to reboot 3 times because of disk
space issues when doing the conversion, but ussually you just use the
new package configuration file for the new OS and run the update.
It really depends on the operating system.
We upgraded a hundred workstation in one day (actually the release was
done by changing one package variable so all it took was saving a file
and releasing a volume) with very few problems (ussually because someone
did something stupid to their workstation, but hey that happens).
-Wallace
