RE: [cobalt-users] [550] Custom OSRCD too large

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Salzer, Tom wrote:
> Gerald et al., removing the nfsroot-x86/bto-sync/toold directory worked
> perfectly.  My custom OSRCD ended up at about 690 Mb with 49 package updates
> included.  The only one that didn't install was the infamous 16622 Apache
> update which I purposefully did not include in the OSRCD.
>
> I used the Sun-provided OSRCD to begin the restore, and when it was done,
> net booted the RaQ 550 with the custom OSRCD.  I had to answer Yes to the
> question about erasing the drives with both CDs.  Since the ROM is current,
> it looks like all I need to do is use the custom OSRCD and skip using the
> Sun disk.

  That's correct, you only need to use the Sun CD, if you need to update
the ROM. This is usually required of RaQ3/4 and XTR, running 2.3.x and
2.8.x rom versions.

> The best news is instead of sitting at my desktop for hours manually
> clicking each package and waiting for each to install, it took 30 minutes
> for the custom OSRCD to install all 49 updates, completely unattended.

Isn't it nice!

Gerald
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