I’m not sure if the physical hard drives are identical. Moving hardware
scares me.
As for the QNX CD, I view the CD either in Windoze or QNX (via /fs/cd0) and
both show uppercase directory and file names. When I attempt to install,
the
installation aborts.
I have been copying files from the CD over the past few days, manually
renaming
everything to lowercase (oh, joy), creating new CDs and attempting
installation.
I finally got a CD from which I can install the base operating system, but
the
repository somehow is screwed up. It only allows me to install JED and
Carnival
desktop wallpaper (whoo-hoo!). I am currently in the process of downloading
patchB from QNXSTART in 17 pieces, which I hope to piece together and then
install my development system.
Needless to say, I’m not very impressed at this point. I am a commercial
developer
using QNX for a radio base station which we will be selling by the dozen
annually,
and which we hope to have support for from QNX. Why doesn’t QNX support
previous versions of the QNX operating system? Are you taking the windoze
route and putting your customers on Bill Gate’s perpetual upgrade
treadmill???
If so, I’m outta here!
Sorry for sounding bitter, but I have lost 3 weeks now trying to rebuild a
6.0B
system after being told to upgrade to 6.1A. You’d think that QNX would have
an FTP site for me to download an old ISO image, or at least that the CDs
they
ship me are in the correct format. And I paid for my development system!!
–
Randy Aeberhardt
<raeberhardt@tantalus-systems.com>
<www.tantalus-systems.com>
“Operating System Tech Support” <os@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:9su1d3$t9$1@nntp.qnx.com…
I received a QNX Patch B CD from the QNX San Jose office and it has the
same
problem as the one that was shipped to me from the Canadian head office.
All the filenames are in uppercase, thus prohibiting me from performing
an
installation.
How are you “viewing” the CD? Are you in Windows when you see this issue?
I have another machine in the office running 6.0 Patch C. It would seem
reasonable
that I should be able to backup the entire filesystem from one
and restore onto the other, but when I tried this this morning, the
restore
process gave me a bunch of errors (I did a “tar” of the 6.0C system
starting
at “/”
and attempted to extract it onto a 6.0A system with no success).
What kind of errors did you get? If the harddrives are identical, you
could
mount the target drive into the host computer and raw copy the drive using
dd.
-Adam