[38] in Kakapo Windows Team
Re: win.mit.edu installers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas L. Thornton)
Sun Jul 20 10:11:28 2003
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:11:26 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200307201411.h6KEBQ8V014671@the-rim.mit.edu>
From: "Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@MIT.EDU>
To: sdowdy@MIT.EDU
CC: contact-container-admins@MIT.EDU, kakapo@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <5.0.2.1.2.20030720091735.029eab50@hesiod> (message from Stephen
Dowdy on Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:22:19 -0400)
Steve,
Thanks for the room. After Friday I will have a response for you on
your manually-installed machines. As one of our most energetic
testers of this installer you deserve and will get our priority
attention on auto deployment of OpenAFS.
There may be several answers to the question, depending on the test
MSI on the machine. Paul may correct me or add more details to you
directly, but with current testing, we have needed no manual
uninstalls for a week and only see some XP machines needing multiple
manual boots. Can you get us the set of your OS and MSI permutations,
or even the set of machine names with such, so we can give you a
complete response?
Have a good vacation.
-Tom
> I will be on vacation and will miss the container admin meeting on
> Friday. As always, the room is reserved.
>
> However, I have one question that hopefully you can address at the meeting
> and make sure it gets into the meeting minutes... You say below, that we
> should NOT manually install since it might present problems in the
> future. What happens to all my XP machines (and my handful of W2K
> machines) where I manually installed openAFS? Since I've tested various
> flavors for you over the past several months, I may have more than one
> release of the openAFS. Whill I need to roll-back (uninstall) and then
> re-boot to get properly synced with the domain? For example, I did the
> manual things to my W2K workstation to test SP4 and took a final release
> candidate from Paul to test SP4.
