[5819] in Release_7.7_team
new Athena installer to test for rhlinux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon Aug 27 17:40:43 2007
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:38:52 -0400
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From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
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The current Linux Athena installer is based on a bunch of RHEL3
technology, and Red Hat is no longer updating the RHEL3 kernel with new
hardware support. Thus, this:
/mit/bootkit/rhlinux/testing/athena-6beta1.iso
...will install Athena 9.4 based on a recent RHEL4 kernel, and includes
fairly good support for newer network and SATA hardware. (It's basically
a tweaked version of the RHEL4.5 install, so should support anything that
the stock RHEL release can.) It's also designed to be very easy to
update to stay in synch with future RHEL4 releases.
While it's labelled as a beta, I haven't seen any problems with the
systems it installs and it may be the best (only?) option going for
people with newish hardware. (Remaining work is mostly in the realms of
testing, review, and documentation.)
Initial usage is completely different but functionally identical (boot
from CD, enter your IP number; it does require the media for the entire
install, though), while the second half that runs out of AFS is
nigh-identical (though currently it will pause when it's done such that
any horrendous lossage can be examined before reboot).
Send any questions to release-team@mit.edu.
