Just a quick follow on from Werner's comments. We at Bruker UK have in the
past made a number of upgrades from IRIX 5.3 to 6.5 that have led to rather
long exercise of debugging long lists of conflicts.
In the past the only reason for performing such upgrades, has been at the
customers request, to eliminate the need for reloading other packages, or
that the customer doesn't have a means to archive the data.
>From our experiences, it is by far the a better method to reload the O/S
from scratch, which facilitates a quicker and less troublesome installation.
IRIX 6.5 does consume more Hard disk and RAM than 5.3 so it's essential to
make these upgrades.
One useful feature of upgrading the disk, is that you can still connect and
access the old disk and existing data.
Regards
Winston Belle
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Winston Belle Phone (+44) 024 7685 5200 Computing Systems Fax (+44) 024 7646 5317 Bruker UK Limited email: winston.belle@bruker.co.uk Coventry CV4 9GH Web: www.bruker.co.uk England ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> -----Original Message----- > From: wem@bruker.de [mailto:wem@bruker.de] > Sent: 03 December 1999 13:48 > To: bruker-users-mail@bloch.cchem.berkeley.edu > Cc: file@bruker.de > Subject: Re: IRIX 6.5 > > > > Dear BUM, > > > IRIX 6.5 on the Indy. The impression I get from comments > on BUM and/or > > AMMRL and some discussion with various people is that the > Indy performance > > nose dives under 6.5 no matter how much memory you may add > to it. There is > > The Indy performance under 6.5 won't be better than under 5.3, > but with additional main memory it is acceptable. As IRIX 6.5 > consumes more space on the system disk, you need at least a > 2 GB system disk. > Please note that we have no experience with upgrade installs from > IRIX 5.3 to IRIX 6.5. We did not encounter any problems with > IRIX 6.5 scratch installs choosing xfs as system disk file system > and at least 128 MB swap sapce. > > > > I have installed all > > the IRIX 5.3 patches that came on the xwinnmr 2.6 CD, so > presumably I have > > all that Bruker recommends for 5.3. I don't really know > whether those > > patches will yield Y2K compliance or not. > > Please note, that there are 3 Y2K relevant patches: > Patch SG0003725: Irix 5.3 date command rollup + Y2k > Patch SG0003735: Availmon 2.1 and IRIX Crash rollup For IRIX 5.3 + Y2K > Patch SG0003756: Irix 5.3 libc rollup + y2k fixes > > replacing patches 2368, 3175, 3176 which were released too late to > make their way onto the XWIN-NMR 2.6 CD. These patches are available > from the SGI web site. I recommend to install these patches also. > > I found IRIX 5.3 with the patches from the XWIN-NMR CD (which are > the SGI recommended plus security and Y2K patches) a very stable > and reliable OS and I would stay with it. > > With best regards, > Werner Mausshardt > > -- > Werner Mausshardt E-mail: werner.mausshardt@bruker.de > Software Department Tel: +49 721 5161 448 > Bruker Analytik GmbH Fax: +49 721 5161 480 >