Recently I tried installing DIA (DecEvent software) on our 4100s. The install
was uneventful on 3 systems, but failed with corrupt installations on 2 systems
which were configured as follows:
original config: /var a link to /usr/var
and then were modified, adding a disk for /var, and removing the link to
/usr/var.
Contents of /usr/var were not removed. Updates to this directory ceased on
the date /var was added as a separate disk.
When I installed DIA, the installation said it completed successfully,
but the verification failed, couldn't find necessary files, and there was
some other error msg during the install.
DEC dialed in, couldn't install either, messed around for a while, at some
point their install deleted the setld binary (!!), they replaced it,
eventually got it in by creating a bunch of links.
Does anyone there know enough about the setld install process to understand
if this config (both /usr/var and /var) is a valid config, or if it is truly
necessary to delete /usr/var to make things work correctly in the future?
TIA!
--
Judith Reed
jreed_at_appliedtheory.com
Received on Tue May 12 1998 - 18:48:26 NZST