I'm summarizing this early because it'll save a bunch of you a big
pain in the ^%&$.
Someone dropped the ball in a major way on this release. The CD's
are labeled wrong *AND* the Release Notes and Installation
Manual are wrong.
The following notes were passed along to me from DEC to help me
through the mess. Fortunately the info on the CD's appears to be
correct.
I'm sure more info will come soon but this is certainly enough to
get us in the right direction. From these supplements I was able
to do the update from 3.2C to 3.2D-1 without a problem.
Good Luck,
Phil Antoine
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1. When the release notes refer to "Volume 2" they mean the complementary
products CD (CP CD), which is labeled on the CD as "Digital UNIX V3.2D and
Complementary Products, Disk 1 of 1". The disk labeled as
"Digital UNIX V3.2D (includes OSF/1 V3.2C)" is called "Volume 1"
by the release notes.
2. OSF/1 V3.2D-1 and -2 are both considered a "Maintenance Supplement" and
therefore do not support installupdate. You must use setld to perform the
installation.
3. The difference between V3.2D-1 and V3.2D-2 is that V3.2D-2 contains
additional hardware support for the AlphaServer 2100A and Single-Board
Computers.
4. Firmware requirements for the ECU and PCI Raid controllers are:
ECU - V1.8 or higher
PCI Raid - RCU V3.11 or higher and ARC 3.5-27 or higher
The following cases can be used to determine which upgrade to perform:
In all cases, upgrade firmware using "Alpha Systems Firmware Update V3.4" CD
before starting OS upgrade.
If current system is V3.2,V3.2A,V3.2B, then installupdate must be used to
upgrade to V3.2C first. Do the following to upgrade to V3.2C:
o shutdown to single-user
o place "Digital UNIX V3.2D (include V3.2C)" (aka Volume 1) into
the CD device - Note: Do not mount the CD
o use installupdate to upgrade the system to V3.2C
/sbin/installupdate /dev/{CD-device}
o boot new kernel to single-user mode
You can then do one of the following:
1. If current hardware is not a 2100 being upgraded to a 2100A and is not a
Single-Board Computer do the following to upgrade to V3.2D-1:
o boot system to single-user mode
o mount /usr file system and start update daemon
o place "Digital UNIX V3.2D and Complementary Products" (aka Volume 2)
into the CD device
o mount the CD
mount -rd /dev/{cd-device} /mnt
o use setld to install maintenance supplement and choose all mandatory
subsets:
setld -l /mnt/OSF360/kit
o save a copy of the kernel
o use doconfig to create a new kernel
doconfig -c HOSTNAME
o move new kernel to vmunix
o reboot
2. If current hardware is an AlphaServer 2100 and is being upgraded to an
AlphaServer 2100A or current hardware is a Single-Board Computer:
o upgrade hardware on AlphaServer 2100 to 2100A
o upgrade firmware
o boot to single-user mode
o place "Digital UNIX V3.2D (includes V3.2C)" CD (aka Volume 1) into
the CD device.
o mount CD to /mnt
o setld -l /mnt/ALPHA/hUPDATE
o reboot genvmunix to single-user mode, e.g. boot {disk} -fi genvmunix
o rebuild kernel using doconfig - do not specify hostname
o when prompted for configuration file name, select the default
o when asked to replace current file, select "y"
o copy new kernel to /vmunix and reboot
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Received on Thu Jan 18 1996 - 02:40:08 NZDT