Unix administration - problems upgrading from IRIX 6.5.19m

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problems upgrading from IRIX 6.5.19m

Kirt Dankmyer

2004-07-21, 5:58 pm

So, I have this Origin 2000 box. It's running IRIX 6.5.19m. I
downloaded the files to upgrade it to 6.5.24, but when I used inst to
uprade it and rebooted, when I did "uname -R" it came up as 6.5.19
again. So, I tried upgrading to 6.5.22 instead -- still no dice. It
still thinks its 6.5.19, and on top of which, it doesn't want to
reboot -- use of /etc/reboot causes nothing to happen. I don't know if
that's related at all.

Anyone see symptoms like this before? A machine that "refuses" to
upgrade? Heck, inst claims 6.5.22 is a downgrade, even though "uname
-R" still treturns 6.5.19...

-Kirt A. Dankmyer