Gehan Gehale wrote:
> Hello,
>    I called our companies hp contract rep about getting a fos tape for
> our system on monday. They said they would send that to us and we
> would have it on friday.
>
>   Today someone called from hp and said they are no longer shipping
> mpe 6.0 FOS. They are only supporting upgrades and he could ship me
> 6.5 if I wanted to upgrade.

This sounds a bit strange (unless procedures have changed).
I think if you were on 6.5 already and asked for a reshipment
of 6.5 material, they would do that for you.

> I can't belive how much this sucks. It really puts a wrench in the works...

As much as I can emphatize with your disappointment, you
do realize that MPE 6.0 has been HP unsupported for well
over 2 and half years now ?

>  I was wondering, what's the legality of someone copying me a 6.0 FOS
> tape and sending it to me?

IANAL, and to comment on legality aspects could be a very
career limiting move (esp. if you see my email domain ..)

> I have the 6.0 prod/subsys and the power
> patch 2 tape. But for some reason I'm missing my FOS tape... And HP
> won't send me a copy...
>
>  I'm still working on re-installing our HFS dir and getting java and a
> few other things running. If I can't get someone to send me the fos
> tape, how can I devise a workaround? Can I take the 6.5 version tape
> and install the HFS from that? Are there a lot of changes between 6.0
> and 6.5 that could effect that? What about 5.5 I'm pretty sure I have
> a 5.5 fos tape in my library..

Sorry that I am curious, but what exactly is the reason that
you cannot update your system to MPE 6.5 ?

>
> Any suggestions would be much appricated,

How about asking your local HP Response Center (maybe for time
& materials cost) to make you a copy ?  I would assume that
tyipcal HP RC support groups have not re-cycled the 6.0 tapes
yet, and could produce a copy for you.


HTH,
Goetz


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