Initial system installation and upgrades
The menus and options available during an initial system installation of
Open UNIX 8 have been updated, and installation on 1 GHz and faster systems
is now supported.
Please observe the following limitations when installing Open UNIX 8:
CD-ROM installs-
Post-installation addition of non-self-updating packages
(e.g. osmp, mpio, or kdb, etc.)
from the base directory of the CD-ROM via pkgadd or the
scoadmin application installer does not result in a prompt
to re-apply the update package before re-booting (and re-linking the
kernel).
The UpdateSet set must be re-applied from the Updates CD
after installing one of these packages, as follows:
pkgadd -d cdrom_mount UpdateSet
where cdrom_mount is the device where the CD-ROM is mounted
(e.g., cdrom1).
Network installation-
The network installation floppies have been updated and
contain the latest network driver support (see
``Network Interface Card (NIC) Drivers'').
Support for network installation via the IPX/SPX protocols has been removed.
networking support-
Networking support should be selected during initial installation
(if desired), although configuration can be deferred.
/var and /var/tmp-
The /var and /var/tmp file systems are mounted by
default as memfs file
systems that take advantage of the new global_swapmax option.
They now share a global memory pool, instead of the previous behavior of
having private memory space for each file system.
See also
``memfs swap space''.
HBA floppies-
The single Host Bus Adapter (HBA) floppy has been replaced by a
two floppy set.
As with previous releases, when initially inserting multiple
HBA floppies that share a driver, the first instance of the driver
will take precedence.
The HBA floppies are prompted for re-insertion in
reverse order (before building the kernel and rebooting) to maintain this
precedence.
See
``Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Drivers''.
UDI HBA floppies-
Please see
``Uniform Driver Interface (UDI)''
for information on using UDI HBA floppies.
updated media images-
The operating system datastream
on the install media has been recut to incorporate the
Release 7.1.1 update, so the Open UNIX 8 fresh install is performed by installing
a recut version of UnixWare 7 (711-recut)
followed by the UpdateSet set.
Individual 711-recut packages will be provided on the install
media, so you can install them later if you do not select them during the
initial install.
Some of these packages will
require that the UpdateSet be reapplied afterward.
These 711-recut packages on CD1 should only be installed on
Open UNIX 8 Release 8.0.0 and are not
supported on previous releases of UnixWare 7.
Installing UnixWare 7 packages-
After installing Open UNIX 8, some applications may fail to install because they
are expecting to be installed on a UnixWare 7 system.
Follow these steps to install packages intended for earlier releases, such as
nscomm (Netscape Communicator 4.61), on Open UNIX 8:
-
If you have a CD-ROM containing the file system image of the
nscomm package,
insert the CD-ROM containing the package image in the drive,
and copy it to a local directory, as in this example:
pkgtrans cdrom1 /var/spool/pkg nscomm
The above commands create a directory named nscomm under
/var/spool/pkg, with all of the package files under
nscomm.
-
If you have a data stream or single-file format image of the package
(e.g., NScomm4.image), use the
pkgtrans(1)
command to transfer it into a file system format, as in this
example of a datastream image, NScomm4.image, in
the current directory:
pkgtrans $PWD/NScomm4.image /var/spool/pkg nscomm
The above command creates a directory named nscomm under
/var/spool/pkg, with all of the package files under
nscomm.
-
Edit the applications
pkginfo(4)
file (pkgname/pkginfo, or /var/spool/pkg/nscomm/pkginfo
using the example from Step 1), and add a line like the following
to the end of the file:
SCOMPAT=5:7.1.1:UnixWare
Then, save the changed file.
See the
uname(1)
manual page for an explanation of the SCOMPAT variable.
Also see
``uname(1) changes''.
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Edit the applications
pkgmap(4)
file (pkgname/pkgmap, or /var/spool/pkg/nscomm/pkgmap
using the example from Step 1), and find the line containing
the string ``pkginfo''.
It will look similar to this:
1 i pkginfo 252 18879 966009354
Delete all the numbers after ``pkginfo'' on this line,
and save the changed file.
-
You should now be able to install the package from the edited file
system image without any warning about an incorrect release, as in:
pkgadd -d dir pkgname
where dir is the directory containing the edited file system image,
and pkgname is the name of the package, or using the example
from Step 1:
pkgadd -d /var/spool/pkg nscomm
Enhanced application compatibility (acp) package-
The following commands from the acp package are no
longer installed or supported:
/usr/bin/dosslice
/usr/sbin/fixshlib
Netscape Communicator 4.61 (nscomm) package-
You must follow the instructions found above, under
Installing UnixWare 7 packages
to install Netscape Communicator 4.61 on Open UNIX 8.
Network Information Service (nis) package-
The Network Information Service (nis) package is no longer selected by
default and must be manually selected, if desired.
installsrv(1M)-
The
installsrv(1M)
command has been updated to fix problems staging the
network install of the software on the Base OS and Updates
CD-ROMs (the first and second installation CDs).
The command now supports both UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.1 and Open UNIX 8 Release 8.0.0
network installation (using the appropriate media).
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 22 April 2004