[Info-vax] Any issues upgrading 7.1 to 7.3?

Jeffrey H. Coffield jeffrey at digitalsynergyinc.com
Mon Sep 7 16:59:16 EDT 2009



Roy Brown wrote:
> 
> We're on 7.1 (though if it's plain vanilla, 1-H2 or -2 I don't know -
> let's assume plain vanilla).
> 
> But only 7.3-2 is still supported by HP.
> 
> So prudence dictates, perhaps, that we make the switch.
> 
> But before I advocate this, has anyone had any issues making this point
> move?
> 
> Is 7.3 known to break anything in 7.1?
> 

Check your console firmware to see if it needs to be upgraded before the
 new version is installed.

Make another disk bootable with a copy of OpenVMS. (I can give you a DCL
 file that will copy OpenVMS to another pack without deleting what's
already on it.)

Jeff Coffield
http://www.digitalsynergyinc.com



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