[4724] in testers
Re: More Ultra1 woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 5 10:36:14 2001
Message-Id: <200106051434.KAA00349@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2001 00:49:10 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:34:47 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
It looks like you've fallen through a crack in our Solaris
space-checking strategy. Here's what's wrong:
* You have a 2GB disk, according to the solpart discuss
meeting. Our plans were made assuming that sun4u machines
all have at least 4GB disks.
* Our partitioning scheme for 2GB disks has a 48MB root
partition.
* Our space checks for the 8.4 -> 9.0 update were made for
sun4m machines, which don't store as much on the root
partition.
You can do an install of 8.4 with custom partitions (which, for
reasons of the install implementation, implies that you will have a
combined / and /usr partition) and you should then be able to update
to 9.0. The release team will discuss the best fix for the problem in
its meeting tomorrow.
