Interactive 2.2 install query

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <6417 at gaboon.UUCP> asv at gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) writes:
>     Has anyone done the upgrade rather than the destructive reinstall on a
>     big ESDI disk?  Any problems with mail and news not working?

I did the upgrade on a 680MB ESDI drive and had just a couple of problems (
like some of my crontab entries got blown away, my gettydefs file got blown
away,etc).  If you have room, make sure you have an on-line backup copy
of your root FS so that you have immediate access to whatever gets blown 
away.

BTW - by blown away I mean that the file on the update disk replaces the 
equivalent pre-existing file.

We installed 2.2 and had no problems with most of the stuff that had already
been configured on the system (mail, news, uucp, even the pre-existing kernel
config stuff).

Our only complaint (other than the #! bug that I reported before) is that our
Archive 60MB tape no longer works (using either the new driver included
with 2.2 or with the old driver that worked under 2.0.2).  ISC is looking
into the problem. 

Otherwise the system is running great.  We have seen no chane in percieved
performance (i.e. it hasn't changed, but we haven't run a benchmark to verify
it).  All of our other peripherals (including WD ethernet, Sigma Designs
Laser View Display, DPT caching controller, and Equinox Megaport) work
flawlessly.  2.0.2 and 2.2 co-exist on the same network without any 
problems.

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