SP2 Updates
Articles and Tips: qna
01 May 2003
Q.
I have previously installed Support Pack 2 (SP2) on NetWare 6, and I have also installed some post SP2 patches. If I have to reinstall SP2 after having installed some additional products, are there any things that I should pay particular attention to?
Spencer "Supporting NetWare" Warren
A.
Dear Spence: The Support Pack 2 installation procedure seems to ignore the versions of many products that are installed. Because of this, SP2 may "downgrade" a couple of things for which you have installed post-SP2 updates. For example, this could include:
ConsoleOne 1.3.4a will be downgraded to 1.3.3
JVM 1.3.1SP4 will be downgraded to JVM 1.3.1
NDS iMonitor 1.5.5 will be downgraded to 1.5.1
So after reinstalling Support Pack 2, it's safest to reinstall the post-SP2 updates that you used before.
Correction: In the "Communication Problems with NW51SP5 and NW6SP2 Broadcom LAN Cards" Q&A in April's Dear Ab-end, we stated there was no new Q57.LAN driver yet. Since that time, Compaq has released a new Q57 driver, which you can find at http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/17267.html.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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