[4578] in testers
Athena 9.0 alpha release for Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Apr 14 12:58:08 2001
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:57:57 -0400
Message-Id: <200104141657.MAA03002@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@mit.edu
CC: wael@mit.edu
The alpha release will begin for Solaris in a few hours.
The update to 9.0 takes about an hour and a half on an Ultra, longer
on a sun4m machine. There is an upgrade to Solaris 7 involved. You
probably want to hold off on updating for now if your root or usr
partition is small (less than 64MB for root, less than 200MB for usr);
we haven't done any careful space usage analysis for this release yet.
Until the release goes early, you won't update to it automatically,
even if your machine is set AUTOUPDATE=true. To update to 9.0
manually, do a console login as root and run:
detach -a
attach dev-sun4sys-90
update_ws
During the alpha test period, you may encounter bugs which could trash
your machine or prevent you from doing work on the machine.
(Wael: you have a machine thankyou.mit.edu in the alpha-sun4 cluster.
If you want this to remain the case, you should probably add yourself
to the testers mailing list to get updates of stuff during the alpha
testing period.)
