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

[Roy Brown]

In message 
<ccd547ff-d60a-4d17-bdcc-7683aefb18e3 at l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, 
Steve <etmsreec at yahoo.co.uk> writing at 11:53:30 in his/her local time 
opines:-
>On 7 Sep, 17:48, Roy Brown
><Roy_now_free_from_s... at acanthus.demon.co.uk> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
>> Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris
>
>You've not specified clearly whether it's the VAX emulation or Alpha?

Emulation. Please excuse me - I'm new to VAXen :-(

>If it's VAX, you'll be at V7.1 (there wasn't a 7.1-1hx for VAX) and
>there isn't a 7.3-x for VAX, only 7.3.
>This post suggests Alpha, your later one suggests VAX.

Yes, quite right, I was looking at the wrong part of the page
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/openvms_supportchart.html
  :-(

So, 7.3 then.

>On the upside, provided you remember your patches, you should be ok in
>my experience.  A complete backup beforehand never hurts though!

Amen to that!

I might be new to VAXen, but as an ex-System Manager on HP3000s, such 
things are ingrained.

On the HP3000 list, we've been getting postings recently, along the 
lines of 'I've just inherited this HP3000 - where do I start?'.

And here I am, doing something not too dissimilar on the VMS ng :-)

Though at least I know already how to negotiate HP's documentation site 
- where rule 1 is that HP never learned that mentioning two things means 
you only want the set of intersections, and not all of *both* sets.

(A problem that plagued all Internet search engines before AskJeeves, 
though Google came along shortly afterwards and stole their thunder).


-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris