"Kathy E. Gill" wrote:
>
> Well, i did the upgrade thing and installed OS8.5 on my 7600 PowerMac
> (255mhx/128RAM/2Gig/9Gig).
>
> First alert for those who are going to upgrade:
> even though I had been told to do this, i forgot! Export your PPP settings
> -- because 8.5 uses "Remote Access" to combine what PPP & RA did before.
> [frankly, i think that's confusing, but i'm an oldtimer]. And RA doesn't
> "read" your old PPP preferences ... so any setups (my different dial up
> numbers for NWNexus & Mindspring plus the mail server, DNS settings, etc)
> disappear into the ether.
>
<<SNIP>>
That one got me also.
>
> NOW - having done this - and I haven't installed the patch 8.5.1 yet (I
> downloaded it last night but it's - i hope - on the old system disk which i
> haven't stuck in my external scsii box yet) - what about performance?
>
>
<<SNIP>>
8.5.1 loaded with no problems.
I did get caught with one issue; disk drivers. I have two aftermarket
external SCSI drives which I decided to upgrade to the newest drivers
and the HFS+ file system. Somewhere in the shifting things around and
running NU Speeddisk, I crashed my main boot disk and had to rebuild my
Internet connections connections again. Thankfully, I had switched to a
cable modem and no longer needed the PPP conncetion.
--
John Stewart
SUPSHIP San Diego
Information Systems Security Mgr
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