Upgrading a network of Sun386i's to 4.0.1

[Jim Budler]

daedalus!kovar%husc4 at talcott.harvard.edu (-David C. Kovar) writes:
> ...I'm
> going to have to reenter the account information for 200 accounts via SNAP
> and they're going to have to reenter their passwords.... Will I
> break anything if I just restore /etc/passwd, /etc/auto.home, and the like
> from tape and remake the YP server?

I can't think why anything would break. My yellow pages master is on a
sun3, sunOS 3.5. So it didn't change at all when we upgraded our four
sun386i's. Everything still worked fine.

> ...There appears to
> be an unreasonable amount of "print out the XXX file and reenter it by

Well, it newfs's /, /usr, and /files. That's definately "trashed".

> hand when you reconfigure the system after the upgrade." Is there a way to
> do this upgrade more efficiently, and more quickly?

I unloadc'd all the clusters, and modified the installation script to NOT
newfs /files. So the user directories weren't trashed.

jim

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