[2201] in testers
Re: problems taking 7.6A on a DEC3100
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sat Jul 10 13:09:38 1993
From: cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 13:09:28 -0400
To: jweiss@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: release@Athena.MIT.EDU, testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
> I still want to know what /.deleted is.
The do_update script creates the /.deleted directory. Why exactly it
does this, I don't know. I've never been educated in the mechanics
of updates. But guess what I'll be studying this weekend...
> tla:~: ls -l /mit/mkserv/services/
> total 15
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 11211 3 Jun 15 1992 6.4 -> 7.4
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 11211 3 Jun 15 1992 7.0 -> 7.4
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 11211 3 Jun 15 1992 7.1 -> 7.4
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 11211 3 Jun 15 1992 7.2 -> 7.4
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 11211 3 Jun 15 1992 7.3 -> 7.4
> drwxrwxr-x 3 11211 4096 Apr 26 16:06 7.4
> drwxrwxr-x 2 11211 4096 Mar 18 18:46 7.5
> drwxrwxr-x 3 11211 2048 Jun 15 1992 test
>
> 7.6 is conspiciously missing.
Yup, sounds true to me. Sigh. Guess what else I'll be studying this
weekend...
> I also don't seem to have gotten the new kernel. I thought this known
> bug only affected DEC5000's, sigh.
You misunderstood the problem. The lack of kernel copy affects all
decstations. It only causes immediate booting problems for the 5000s,
though. 3100s still boot afterwards. It would be wise to copy in the
new kernel by hand after the update. This will be fixed with the
next vos release.
Craig
