using installation tape for disaster recovery

[Mike Ewan]

In article <2748 at unccvax.uncc.edu> wdg at unccvax.uncc.edu (Doug Gullett) writes:
>In article <9009171852.AA03774 at garnet.berkeley.edu>, rusty at GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU (rusty wright) writes:
>> Ultrix 4.0 on my MicroVAX II/GPX and found out after it was too late
>> that 4.0 won't work on an RD53.)  
>
>Is this true??  4.0 just arrived and is in a waiting pattern for a while.
>If it does not run on RD53s we are in big trouble. Is this documented
>somewhere (say the release notes)??o

Ultrix 4.0 _will_ run on RD53's.  The catch is that you need at least
2 of them and you need to do an advanced install and put /usr on the
second RD53.  I'm running Ultrix 4.0 on a VAXstationII/GPX with three
RD53's.  I'm using the third for /home and X11R4.

Mike


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