817s

[William Jennens]

I just inherited an old 817s with HP-UX 9. Is there much that I will be able to do with this machine? Any suggestions or thoughts. My background is with MPE and Windows based products.

[Steffi Jones_1]

Hello,

9.x is not y2k compliant. In order to run any timerelated application (and those are almost all of them) on this box I would recommend to upgrade to 10.x and install the appropiate patches on the box.

The filesystem structure changed from 9.x to 10.x/11.x so that box wouldn't even do too good as a learning crash and burn box.

Steffi Jones

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi William,

Steffi is right, but you'll need at least 16Mb RAM to be able to load 10.x O/S.
I know that some early 817s only have 8Mb

Here is a link (european server as I don't have access to the US server):
http://europe-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=dc477a6c06b0ef38c2/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000024631304

Document ID is W3455754, in case you can't follow the link.

Best regards,

Dan