Amanda-Users

Re: OS Upgrade

2002-11-13 08:14:45
Subject: Re: OS Upgrade
From: Wayne Richards <wrichards AT goodyear DOT com>
To: "Mahidhar Kada" <mkada AT gdatech DOT com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:41:18 -0500
Don't do it.  Skip Solaris 7 completely.  Even Sun has admitted that Solaris 8 
is a fully patched Solaris 7.  Now that Solaris 9 (09/02) is available, 
Solaris 8 should be the minimum installation.

We are running amanda 2.4.2p2 under Solaris 8.

Wayne Richards

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> I am using Amanda 2.4.1p1 on Solaris 2.6. Now I want to upgrade my OS to
> Solaris 7. Do I need to reinstall Amanda, can you suggest something.
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> Thanks,
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> Mahidhar Kada
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> font-family:Arial'>I am using Amanda 2.4.1p1 on Solaris 2.6. Now I want =
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> upgrade my OS to Solaris 7. Do I need to reinstall Amanda, can you =
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