WARNING : Deinstall in SCO UNIX DANGEROUS!

[Robert J Woodhead]

sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>Did you, perhaps, run out of disk space?  (It tries to build a
>file list, according to its messages, and if it can only make a file that
>has "/usr" as the pathname...)

	Nope, had about 3M left before the deinstall.

>I suspect from that that your disk actually *died*.  Not sco's fault.

	Get real, Sean.  The disk was perfectly OK after the event,
	and the system was up and running (albeit crippled) for
	24 hours before I reinstalled.  I managed to FTP the whole
	of /u (not a seperate partition) off the machine.

	The reason I did a reinstall was 1) with /usr gone, all the
	installation sw was zapped from the HD, and given the good
	chance that other parts of the filesystem were MUNGed, it
	seemed like the prudent thing to do.

>>There were a few bobbles because
>upgrade...


	Well, lets see.  My little red registration card says that it
	was printed 09/27/90, and I bought it in late November.  I had
	to buy everything over again even though the machine was running
	SCO XENIX -- no discount for upgrades.  Your new version of TCP/IP
	didn't support my Excelan ethernet board, so I had to buy another
	board (I was quite happy with SCO XENIX, btw - I had to upgrade
	because some new boards I needed to do work with would only talk
	to Unix, not XENIX)

	So now you are telling me that my software is obsolete and I need
	to upgrade?  This is the extent of SCO tech support?  "It wasn't
	our problem; your hardware blew up; and you need to upgrade!"

	Prithy tell me, kind sir, how much said upgrade will cost!

>Gee, no.  Actually, we never install or deinstall internally, and you are,
>in fact, the first person to ever deinstall.  (That was sarcasm.)

	Gee, I believe you.  I also recall Hippocrates, who gave the
	following advice to physicians; "First, do no harm."  The same
	is good advice to software companies.

>Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
>sef at kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
>-----------------+           -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_)
>Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.

^^^^^ Well, I'll agree with you there!


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