Me too.

>>> Andreas Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> 02/23/01 09:33AM >>>
I want to disagree! We still have DDS and not a single CD on the HP e3000
... So please keep the option for DDS as well! Thanks!

Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany

P.S. You're Unix-look-alike ?!?!




Doug Werth <[log in to unmask]>@RAVEN.UTC.EDU> on 23/02/2001 06:23:07 PM

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Subject:  [HP3000-L] OS Updates via CDROM (was: Request For Discussion:
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Dennis Heidner responds to Jon Cohen:

> I would prefer to get all releases of software on CDROM!  Forget the old
> reel-to-reel tapes we keep getting or the truck loads of boxes with just
> one DDS-1 tape in each box.  It would save us time and HP distribution
> expenses.

I think Dennis brings up a good point. The entire update process should be
revamped. Assuming the A-class, N-class, and all future MPE processors can
boot from CD-ROM (they can right?, if not why not?) then the process should
be changed so that all update media is on CD and intermediate SLT's should
be eliminated.

I could see where there would be a factory SLCD and a FOS/SUBSYS CD with an
unlock key, and PowerPatches on CD. It seems to me the update process was
heading in that direction several years ago. But the SLTs were never
replaced with SLCDs and staging process was not perfected to work except
for
applying patches that met specific requirements.

Furthermore you could still make an SLT to update a remote system using the
current tools (HPINSTAL).

Thoughts or comments?

Doug.

Doug Werth                             Beechglen Development Inc.
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