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Apr 12 06:45 UTC 1997 |
Grex was down for a while on Friday night. We took the 2G disk
that we were essentially using only for swap and put it into the
new Sun-4/670. One of the old 300M disks from the Sun-3 (remember
the Sun-3?) is now installed on Grex, acting as a swap disk.
We did this because we need a big disk to play with on Grach
(Grach is a collision of the words "Grex" (us) and "Bach" (What
the Sun-4/370 box that we bought from the UM junkyard was named
(in a different life at the UM Hospital), and is the physical
housing for the Sun-4/670.) Got all that?
Anyway, we have the 2G HP disk on Grach now, and we've talked
to it some. We attemped to make it a boot disk, but it was late
enough in the day that we succeeded in confusing it, so we're
reformating it as I write this. Once we have a system built on
the 2G disk, we'll have a system that staff can play on and test
and poke to their hearts content.
There is less effort in getting the Sun-4/670 up and running
as Grex, compared to moving from the Sun-3 to Sun-4. Back then,
we had to recompile the entire world, jump to a new version of
SunOS (the operating system), install patches for SunOS, *and*
fix the patches to make them work OK, and then finally test it
all for security problems.
This move is much simpler: we need to build up a disk such
that we have a playpen in which to test things, get the relevant
SunOS patches and apply them (this model of SunOS is in better
shape than the 4/200 series was), test for security problems,
then finally integrate the disks from the current Grex onto it.
This is still a fair amount of work, but a lot easier than
before.
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