FW: SUM: GEN: Upgrade DigUnix to 4.0b for A/I 7.1.2
> >
> >-We finished the OS upgrade last week... and here is the summary! :-)
> >Thanks to Vince Hazell, John M. Zimmerly, Hugo D. Cardenas, Colin Brooks
> >(and other members of the alpha-osf-managers list), and anyone else I
> might
> >have forgotten...
> >
> >The original post said this:
> >>-We are going to upgrade our DEC Alphastation 200 4/166 from Digital
> Unix
> >>3.2c to 4.0b so we can use ARCINFO 7.1.2 and ArcView 3.0b. We are
> >>debating whether to do a cold install of 4.0b or upgrade 3.2c to 4.0,
> then
> >to >4.0b. Any advice/tips? Which method do you recommend?
> >>
> >> THANKS!
> >> -JJW
> >> James J. Warren
> >> WarrenJamesJ_at_exchange.uams.edu
> >
> >We followed the update install method of 3.2c to 4.0, then 4.0 to 4.0b.
> We
> >also upgraded firmware, patches, etc., at the appropriate times in this
> >process. This also seemed to be the consensus procedure given to us by
> >listserve members. Other than the slow speed of updating it took on our
> >older Alphastation 200, it all went without a hitch. Apparently, some
> >people have problems running A/I 7.1.2 after doing a cold install from
> 3.2c
> >to 4.0b. So we avoided that route. Currently, we like the 'new' OS
> 4.0b.
> >We have ArcView 3.0 and A/I 7.0.4 still running. And they seem to run
> fine
> >on 4.0b. Soon, we will do the ESRI software upgrades. Maybe at that
> time,
> >I'll post another question to the list asking the best procedure to do
> this
> >;-) If ESRI will test all their main GIS products on DigitalUnix 4.0d,
> we
> >will probably upgrade to this as well asap. It is supposed to be a
> better
> >all-around version than 4.0b (although we were able to apply a brand new,
> >April 2nd?, version of the patches for 4.0b). There is also an issue
> about
> >the Fortran libraries, firmware, and which ones should work with 4.0b
> when
> >running A/I 7.1.2
> >We may encounter this soon.
> >
> >Many thanks once again.
> >
> > -JJW
> >
>
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