Re: [WinMac] Re: Mac OS 8.6

CHoogendyk@AOL.COM
Fri, 28 May 1999 09:02:50 -0500

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>> Hmmm, let's see: I didn't have to reinstall any drivers when
installing
>>NT4's Service Pack 2, 3, 4, & 5
>
>Well, SP5 just killed my brand new install of NT workstation 4. Of course
>I was very trusting (stupid) and didn't backup before installing but I
>figured, what the heck I've just reformated the hard drive and am using
>an NTFS partition so I should be ok. Turns out I have to use 98 for a
>while until I find the time to reformat and reinstall everything again.
>And that's not the only machine in our network that SP5 has killed.
>
>I've never had such a severe problem with any Mac I've dealt with when
>updating OSs.

here's another one for you.

We had the LAN Support group from OIT (Office of Instructional Technology
here at UMass) come over today and upgrade our server (a dual everything
Compaq) to SP4 (have to have some of that stuff for Y2K compliance -- um,
let's see, which Mac OS do we have to upgrade to for Y2K?). Anyway, the
reason it took so long was that if you have an NTFS boot volume over 7.8G
(FAT is ok), your boot blocks can get mangled by SP4. So they Ghosted the
server (just in case), ran Partition Magic to cut down the boot partition
(this took forever), and finally did the SP4 upgrade. If they hadn't done
this a mess of times on other servers, they never would have known why SP4
kept trashing big servers.

While they were doing that we swapped out two old DEC Alphas and put in two
new DEC Alphas running Digital Unix for our Library Catalog servers (serving
UMass and Amherst, Smith, Hampshire and Mt. Holyoke Colleges). Copied the
entire database over for each of them and then swapped host names & IPs. I'm
not necessarily going to say our job was simpler or easier than their job.
But, we did it in about the same amount of time that it took them to do the
SP4 update.

Chris Hoogendyk
Network Specialist
UMass Library, Amherst

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