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Re: Athena 9.4 Installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Fri Nov 4 14:14:04 2005
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To: Garrett E Barter <gbarter@MIT.EDU>
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> Hope this was clear and helpfull,
It was; thanks. My apologies for the long delay in getting any sort of
answer from us on this.
To answer your earlier question:
>IS&T deploys new Athena cluster machines often- there must be
>an updated installer available somewhere.
Nope, the version 5 install media is the latest. The kernel the
installer is based on is from the very end of 2004, and (because Red Hat
backports support for new hardware rather that taking full kernel
updates) contains fairly up-to-date device support, including support for
some SATA hardware. The new cluster machines (SATA-based) recently
deployed are in fact installed with this installer.
As Bill writes, an update is in the works.
One other question about what you write:
> Both of these computers use an ICH7 chipset, which outdated the Athena
> installer and even our RHEL4 install CD.
Can you tell me what version of the RHEL4 install CD you were using?
They're updated quarterly, mostly for new hardware support; it would be
interesting (and probably depressing) to know how much of a moving target
we're trying to hit here.
