Steven Dickson wrote:

> What are the pros and cons of using the CD-ROM over the DDS tapes to
> upgrade to 6.5?

well, assuming you have a cd drive and the keys from hp to unlock the
software (the later is nontrivial, btw <sigh>), imo, it's one of those
better-than-sliced-bread sorta things.

you can build your cslt while the system is up and completely customize
(i guess that's what the 'c' in cslt means, huh :-) it.  this
customization can extend well beyond the traditional hp-supplied
'update' tools.  for example, when longs was updating mpe on all our
store systems for y2k we did this.  part of what we put onto the cslt
was a number of longs-specific files and jobs which made the whole
update process slicker than a hound dog's tooth :-)

i kinda wish this was the standard method for doing updates....
- d

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