Original Question :
> Over recent months I have performed many Tru64 Upgrades using the
> installupdate procedure.
> Generally these have gone very well, but one thing does confuse me. During
> the step up to V4.0F the upgrade always insists on installing LSM and
AdvFS
> subsets even if they were not installed on the previous versions. Many of
> the systems I have upgraded originally had the factory installed software,
> which did include AdvFS, LSM, ATM etc. I usually delete these subsets, as
> most of the systems I have updated have no requirement for them and they
are
> just taking up valuable disk space. But always on the step up to V4.0F
AdvFS
> and LSM are put back.
>
> Can anyone explain this behavior ?
>
> Regards
>
> Kevin Jones
Many thanks to Tom Reu for this response :
> In order to use the "New Hardware Delivery" mechanism which was
> introduced in Version 4.0F, it became necessary to make AdvFS, LSM, and
> the like
> mandatory subsets so that the necessary .mod files are available when
> booting a kernel using the bootlink technology.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Tom Reu
> Tru64 UNIX Installation Team
>
>
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