[rescue] Re: Fry's

[Dave McGuire]

On February 23, Robert Novak wrote:
> > >   Reboot to install software?  You mean the OS, right?
> > 
> > Actually I've rebooted Suns after installing non-OS software.
> 
> I don't know if Veritas stuff counts as OS (since you reboot to load
> kernel bits), but I have run into two opportunities for rebooting my E450
> during an install of Veritas Foundation Suite (VXVM+VXFS) under Solaris 8 
> this week. I'm pretty sure it would be the same whether it were an SBus
> system or a PCI system, and no, the E450's twin is not available. :)

  OS components don't really count, in my opinion.  But even in this
case...are the Veritas components loadable kernel modules?  If so, in
theory it should be possible to install and configure it without a
reboot, if the need arose.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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