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Re: Athena 9.4 Installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Nov 3 17:22:14 2005
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Garrett E Barter <gbarter@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:22:06 -0500
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Ideally we would have gotten back to you sooner.
What exactly did you end up doing? If another customer comes in with
the same problem before we update the installer, we can at least give
them your work-around.
-wdc
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:14 -0500, Garrett E Barter wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Between temporarily swapping in alternate
> hardware and many Google searches, we found a way to get Athena onto our
> machines.
>
> Thanks,
> Garrett
>
>
> Bill Cattey wrote:
> > I was going through old mail. Did anyone get back to you on this issue?
> >
> > Upgrading the Athena install to be based on a 2.6 kernel has been in our
> > queue to do for some time. Unfortunately, there are too many tasks and
> > not enough people.
> >
> > It's an unfortunate situation where we had to put extra effort into
> > making things stable for existing customers and customers using hardware
> > we've qualified before we could do work for new customers with the
> > latest hardware requiring a refresh of our installer.
> >
> > We had a LOT of trouble this year with instability of AFS under the 2.6
> > kernel. That sucked up a lot of our time and energy. With that behind
> > us, we hope to begin working on an update to the installer Real Soon
> > Now.
> >
> > -wdc
> >
> > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 18:15 -0400, Garrett E Barter wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>We perform system administration for a lab with many Linux-Athena
> >>workstations for its students. We recently ordered some new machines
> >>and our Athena install was foiled because of unsupported hardware (new
> >>SATA controllers, network card chipset, etc). The Athena install CD is
> >>based off of RHEL3 and the 2.4 Kernel and is quite old. What is the
> >>timeline for upgrading the installer in the bootkit locker to RHEL4 and
> >>the 2.6 kernel? Alternatively, is there another way we can install
> >>Athena? IS&T deploys new Athena cluster machines often- there must be
> >>an updated installer available somewhere.
> >>
> >>Many thanks for your help,
> >>ACDL admins
