Pardon me while I claw my eyes out.
Plus side? My work day is done in 15 minutes.
Down side? I did about 10 minutes worth of actual work today.
It's not that I didn't try to work. Oh, we want you to upgrade this system. But you can't touch this system. People use it. Oh, that's fine, do you have a test system? No. Do you have a sandbox system? Well, we have one down in Auburn that's turned off and sitting in a corner, but the drive isn't large enough to hold a modern OS. Ok, can I get some hardware from someone? No, probably not. ...... ....
Can I change the drive out in this system and install to this box? Well, no the guy needs the box. He's open to not having it for a few days, but we don't have another drive.
Ok, well, you want me to upgrade an OS in place without disrupting data, on an OS that wasn't intended to do that (Solaris 8->9) It might be possible, I don't know, I haven't used solaris 9, but I have no test system, and you have no other hardware. You also have no space on the root partition, so even if it's possible, the new OS is pretty much guaranteed not to fit. So there's no way I can proceed and hope to be successful... "Oh, ok, could you write that up and email it to me so I have something to work with?" Sure. I'd love to.
I never did mind about the little things.
Down side? I did about 10 minutes worth of actual work today.
It's not that I didn't try to work. Oh, we want you to upgrade this system. But you can't touch this system. People use it. Oh, that's fine, do you have a test system? No. Do you have a sandbox system? Well, we have one down in Auburn that's turned off and sitting in a corner, but the drive isn't large enough to hold a modern OS. Ok, can I get some hardware from someone? No, probably not. ...... ....
Can I change the drive out in this system and install to this box? Well, no the guy needs the box. He's open to not having it for a few days, but we don't have another drive.
Ok, well, you want me to upgrade an OS in place without disrupting data, on an OS that wasn't intended to do that (Solaris 8->9) It might be possible, I don't know, I haven't used solaris 9, but I have no test system, and you have no other hardware. You also have no space on the root partition, so even if it's possible, the new OS is pretty much guaranteed not to fit. So there's no way I can proceed and hope to be successful... "Oh, ok, could you write that up and email it to me so I have something to work with?" Sure. I'd love to.
I never did mind about the little things.