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After reading Alex Moore's and your responses, maybe I'll just hide under the desk with the MES. Yes, there is a reason that keeps me from putting V5R1 or V5R2 on before the installation. The 2395 cannot support any release over V4R5. It has a Pulsar processor. The upgrade will move us to a S-Star, so I have no choice but wait until the hardware is installed and then go to V5R1 or R2 I promise to read the Memo to Users for the new releases. There are too many changes not to. Thank you and Alex for your responses and warnings. Mary Jo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 3:59 l Subject: RE: 820-2395 to 820-2435 V5R1 or V5R2? > Mary Jo, > > The minimum supported release for the #2435 processor is V5R1. If your > friendly CE wants to install the MES and verify that your system works, > you must do an upgrade prior to his or her work. Otherwise, you will > have the hardware installed and then power up directly into an upgrade. > Even that might not be possible (I'm ignorant here, you should be able > to IPL directly from CD following the hardware upgrade but it strikes me > as scary because you're increasing complexity and haven't verified that > the hardware upgrade was successful.) > > Both V4R5 -> V5R1 and V4R5 -> V5R2 upgrades are supported. As Alex > Moore suggested in his post, remember to read the documentation for both > upgrades so you're aware of all of the changes if you jump two releases. > > What are the specific reasons for not upgrading the OS prior to the > hardware? Could you just limp along with bad performance so that you > can verify the OS upgrade, then do the hardware? Or is there something > which absolutely prohibits this upgrade? > > My preference in your situation would be to find a way to upgrade the > software (your preference as to whether you go to V5R1 or V5R2, I would > go to V5R2). Make sure the machine will boot and function, then have > the hardware upgrade done immediately. All on the same weekend. > > Regards, > Andy Nolen-Parkhouse > > > admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Mary Jo Whitcomb > > Subject: 820-2395 to 820-2435 V5R1 or V5R2? > > > > We have an 820 2395 and are running V4R5 and cannot upgrade the > > operating > > system until we upgrade the machine. We purchased the MES to upgrade > > it to > > an 820 2435 before V5R2 was available. For reasons I won't go into, > it > > has > > not been installed yet, but it well be soon now. I got V5R1 for the > > install > > back when we ordered the MES, and the box has been sitting right next > > to the > > box with the 2435 MES. > > > > When our friendly CE installs the MES, can we go directly to V5R2, or > > do we > > have to install V5R1 and then V5R2? As we are a hospital, the less > > downtime, the better. > > > > Thanks for any advice you can give me. > > > > Mary Jo > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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