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Re: My Sun wouldn't complete update to Athena beta 9.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Jun 5 11:18:40 2001
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:18:36 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
Message-ID: <20010605111835.T11216@multics.mit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <200106042142.RAA31728@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>; from ghudson@MIT.EDU on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 05:42:00PM -0400
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 4 Jun 2001
at 17:42:00 -0400 in <200106042142.RAA31728@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>:
> > The good news is, the update should be working for your machine now.
> > Remove the last line of /etc/athena/version and run update_ws.
Perhaps (for 9.1 at this point?) we ought to think about making
this a bit more user-friendly, because it's been coming up for years.
Perhaps "update_ws -f" or somesuch.
> Oops, I didn't think about that hard enough. You need to remove the
> last line of /etc/athena/version and then perform the update commands
> described in the beta release announcement (as root, in a console
> login), which are:
>
> detach -a
> attach -O dev-sun4sys-90
> update_ws
This also seems the sort of thing that it would be nice to have update_ws
"do" or "figure out" instead of requiring relatively specific knowledge
of the person updating.
Just a thought.
--jhawk
