My apologies for not sending out an update sooner.
Actually, I had a local person, Tom Dickinson, reach out to me yesterday morning, and was on site within an hour to install a fresh copy of RHEL and VnmrJ 4.2MI, and I was back up and running by mid-afternoon. It was fortunate that he was able to help us so quickly, as we go way back to when he installed our Gemini system as a Varian technician in the mid-90's.
Thank you for all of your quick responses, many of which I'm sure were useful, but we abandoned CemtOS entirely and went with a tried-and-true solution!
Thanks again,
Jon
From: Foglein, Jonathan Lee
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 3:18 PM
To: 'ammrl_at_ammrl.org' <ammrl_at_ammrl.org>
Subject: Installing VNMRJ 4.2 on CentOS 6.9
We have a Varian Mercuryplus 400 system running VnmrJ 4.2. The computer that was running RHEL 6.2 suffered a hard drive failure, and unfortunately the system was not backed up. The computer was part of an upgrade from only 2 years ago, and of course we only had a 1-year warranty.
And before you hit "Reply" too quickly, I know I should've been backing up all along! Also, I've contacted the vendor who sold us the computer, and they only want to sell us yet another computer for many thousands of dollars!
Currently, I am working with my IT folks to install VnmrJ 4.2 on CentOS 6.9 on a replacement hard drive in the same computer (Dell Precision T3500), as they do not support a license for RHEL, but found that 6.9 works better than 7.x. They seem to have been able to install VnmrJ okay, but there are a variety of issues, such as not receiving live feedback from the console for Temp/Spin/Lock, the status is 'Inactive', and the Lock Scan button appears greyed-out and doesn't work. I'm guessing there may be some patches or something that needs to be installed, but I have no idea where to go from here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jon
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Mr. Jonathan Foglein
Instrument Coordinator/
Chemical Hygiene Officer
Rowan University
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Science Hall, Room 301L
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro, NJ 08028
Phone: 856-256-5456
Fax: 856-256-4478
Email: foglein_at_rowan.edu<mailto:foglein_at_rowan.edu>
Received on Thu Jun 21 2018 - 07:37:00 MST