WARNING : Deinstall in SCO UNIX DANGEROUS!

[Aris Zakinthinos]

In article <1991Mar10.174722.20568 at NCoast.ORG> allbery at ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>As quoted from <357 at n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> by wht at n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker):
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>| In article <9113 at lkbreth.foretune.co.jp> trebor at lkbreth.foretune.co.jp (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>| >However, I did find it disturbing that doing a partial install of the
>| >SCO development system partially DEINSTALLS the extended utilties of the
>| >OS.  In order to get things to work, you must then re-install the utilities.
>| >
>| >Did anyone at SCO ever bother to test their install/deinstall scripts?
>| 
>| I haven't experienced the problems you discuss, but there are some
>| warnings in the release notes about certain deinstalls. None of them
>| spoke of /usr going away in toto.
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>
>I did the same deinstall Robert spoke of (removing the DOS and OS/2 cross-
>development stuff) under 2.3.1 and /usr didn't vanish.  We'll see what happens
>when 2.3.2 gets here.  (I found out why it's taking so long, at least....)
>

A friend of mine did the same deinstall and everything seemed to work fine.
Then we did a fsck (we had some wired problems) and low and behold nearly
the whole #%$@&# file system was screwed.  I can't exactly blame the
deinstall but that was the only major thing that has happened to cause
any type of file system failure.

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Aris Zakinthinos
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