[39] in Kakapo Windows Team
RE: win.mit.edu installers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul B. Hill)
Sun Jul 20 16:47:08 2003
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From: "Paul B. Hill" <pbh@MIT.EDU>
To: "'Stephen Dowdy'" <sdowdy@mit.edu>, "'Thomas L. Thornton'" <tomt@mit.edu>,
<contact-container-admins@mit.edu>, <kakapo@mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:46:59 -0400
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>... 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?
The early testers that we know about should not have a problem. They should
not have to make any manual changes to their machines. However, if the
current installer is manually installed, your machines might not get
properly updated if we have to make any last minute changes.
>...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.
You should be all set, unless you have already encountered some problems
that haven't been reported to us.
Paul
