Re: MINCONFIG for PCSI installs?
From: Paul Sture (p_sture_at_elias.decus.ch)
Date: 09/06/03
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Date: 6 Sep 03 11:47:39 +0200
In article <1030903171938.3498B-100000@Ives.egh.com>, John Santos <JOHN@egh.com> writes:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 paul@wren.cc.kux.edu wrote:
>
>> Can I just boot to MINCONFIG and install the PCSI OS patches, and, by
>> that method, keep from having to reboot repeatedly, just rebooting
>> when all the patches have been installed?
>>
>> Thank you!
>
> I'm not sure I've *ever* had to reboot between ECO's when installing
> a whole bunch that say "Reboot required". On rare occasions, such
> as the PCSI ECO, I've had to log out and back in again. (I always
> leave at least one other session or terminal logged into a priv'ed
> account, in case something breaks login.)
>
> Then when done, I've just rebooted once.
>
> (I'm assuming by "MINCONFIG" you mean booting with STARTUP_P1 set
> to "MIN".)
>
> Anyone ever encountered any exceptions to this?
>
Not when booted minimum. There was one memorable incident with a Pthreads
ECO however, which contained no warnings of the fact, but it aborted
currently running processes, and most of SYSHUTDWN failed in quite
a spectacular fashion.
Fortunately that was a test system. For the other systems, I decided
that the safest way to install the offending ECO was after a minimum boot,
which incurred the overhead of a shadow copy of the system disk afterwards.
> (Could be the little gray cells are fading; I just joined AARP the
> other day...)
>
:-)
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