Pete Crosby wrote:
 
>Jon Cohen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>Jon Cohen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>My recommendation is to go through the following
>>>migration steps:
>>>
>>>   o  935 on 2.2  (now)
>>>   o  Update 935 to 4.0 (necessary because we don't support a
>>>                         direct update from 2.2 to 5.0)
>>>   o  Update 935 to 5.0
>>>   o  Replace 935 with 960.
>>>
>>
>>Let me emphasize that you should not skip the "update to 4.0" step.
>>That update will perform some internal data structure conversions.
>>The update to 5.0 already assumes that those conversions have been
>>done.  If you update from 2.2 directly to 5.0, you'll miss the
>>conversions and will wind up with a big mess on your hands.
>>
>
>Or, you could make it easy on yourself and just do an INSTALL to 5.0
>and skip all the junk in between. It will probably save you a good bit
>of time. After the INSTALL just:
>
>       :RESTORE *T;@[log in to unmask]@;DIRECTORY;KEEP;OLDDATE
>                                   ^^^^very critical!!
 
Ya, but!!
 
If you are going to do it that way, don't forget the CREATE and SHOW=OFFLINE
options on the RESTORE command. Otherwise, you may well fail to restore all
your files and not know about it until it's too late.
 
Also, since you will be losing your DTC and network configurations, be
prepared to go back and restore NMCONFIG.PUB.SYS and NSCONF.NET.SYS and run
NMMGRVER against them. I am presuming that NMMGRVER version 5.0 will be able
to handle conversion of these version 2.2 files. If this presumption is
incorrect, be prepared to reconfigure your DTC's and network from scratch.
Hopefully, you have hard copies of these configurations.
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