On 3/1/98 I sent the following message.
>I am in the process of upgrading a DEC 3000/400S from 3.2G to 4.0A and
>seem to be at an impasse.
>
>I first upgraded it using setld from 3.2C to 3.2G which went fine and
>I followed all the instructions for building a new 3.2G based kernel
>customized for the system That all went well also.
>
>I booted into the new kernel, went to single user mode and followed
>the directions to start a CD-ROM based installupdate to 4.0A. The
>program started and began its inspection of the system. That was
>several hours ago. All I see on the screen is a continous flow of
>'working ... messages' every couple minutes.
>
>How long can I expect to wait for installupdate to inspect the system
>before beginning the upgrade? I'm worried it is caught in some kind
>of loop.
The problem turns out to be that installupdate waits for every
filesystem in /etc/fstab to become available, including NFS
filesystems. Because networking is not available, installupdate waits
forever for filesystems that will never be there.
The answer is to comment out the NFS filesystems in /etc/fstab before
starting installupdate.
My thanks to Ian, Stephen, and Nick for the assistance.
Ian Mortimer <mortimer_at_physics.uq.edu.au>
Stephen LaBelle <labelles_at_mscd.edu>
Nick Batchelor <Nick.Batchelor_at_unilever.com>
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Received on Mon Mar 16 1998 - 15:32:35 NZST