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Upgrading NG FP1

Hi

I have a current Sparc 5.7 running CP2k. I need to upgrade this box to CPNG FP1, however, when I started the installation script, it will always hang at installing SVN portion. Anyone with a solution or met the same situation before?

Thanks

matt_t1

The most common Solaris install problem I have seen with NG is to do with the path length. There seems to be a script limitation somewhere that truncates the paths down to 256 characters. Always failed for me on SVN because that was the first bit to get installed.

Best way around it was to move the installer into /tmp and run from there - much shorter paths.

Just a question - why only FP1 and not FP3 (or at least FP2)? There are substantial improvements and bug fixes if you are able to go beyond FP1.

Hope this helps,

Matt.

Tim Holman

You need the upgrade script (upgrade.tgz, from CP website) to upgrade from CP2k to FP1...

Gruff66

Just a small point to take into consideration for this. If you read the minimum requirements for NG on a SPARC I think you'll find that it requies (or recommends) Solaris 8 for NG.

Whenever I ahve done any upgrading from CP2000 to NG I have always flattened the O/S and ionstalled the product as new, then mergconf'd the data files from the previous version. NG seems to like a clean install, anmd I have seen no end of problems with an "upgraded" system.

Arrange some downtime (or preferably get a spare box) and build from scratch.. test the system, then swap them over.

FP1 does have bugs, so I would go for a clean installation and go straight to NG FP3 if I were you

G

leechoonhwee

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Hi Gruff...I know the recommended OS is still Solaris 8. I have also read through the Upgrading Process from Checkpoint that recommends preparing a new box, install NG, run the the upgrade script that swap the 2 boxes. The thing is in real life, we cannot afford to have 2 Sparc or even Intel driven Solaris to do the upgrading process.

Arranging downtime to do the upgrade clean is quite impossible as it leaves me no room to lean back if something happens.

Although I am on software subscription with Checkpoint but they did not give me the FP3 CD, the only CD that I have received is the FP1 and full stop. I cannot find the FP3 CD Image on the support site either. What they do have is an upgrade from FP1 to FP3.

Thanks for your comments.

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