RE: [IUG] Release upgrades and server space

["Zhou, Don" <dzhou at wmitchell dot edu>]

Janice,

I do not know why the old version needs to stay.  I thought the recovery
tape would do the trick in case the upgrade went south. 

I also heard some unsettling news or rumor that 2007 would require 3 GB
ram.  I just bought a new server with 1 GB.  Needlessly to say, it cost
an arm and leg to upgrade the memory from 512 to 1 GB. 


Don Zhou
William Mitchell College of Law

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Subject: [IUG] Release upgrades and server space

I have a question about upgrades and server space:  does each upgrade  
permanently use up space on the software disk partition; or does the  
next upgrade write over it, so to speak?

For instance, we have two 18G disks on a Dec Alpha with 29G  
available.  We are planning on upgrading from Silver to 2005.   
Apparently we can increase the partition to 16G, providing the 12G  
needed for 2005.  That leaves 4G, which we were told would not be  
adequate for the upcoming 2006 release (12G needed).  But possibly we  
could repartition to use up some 13G from our "big zero".

Does this mean that the 12G needed for 2005 can't be "reused" for  
2006?  What is the "big zero" and what are the criteria for how large  
this should be?

Thanks for your insight -- Janice Woo @ CCA

p.s. we purchased our Alpha in 2003 and are a bit perturbed that  
Release 2007 leaves us out in the cold
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