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new beta install media for Athena Linux machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Nov 13 15:48:17 2007
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:46:29 -0500
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
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There's another new linux athena install image:
/mit/bootkit/rhlinux/testing/athena-6beta2.iso
It fixes a bug with network setup on non-/16 networks and adds a hack to
support the otherwise-unsupported network hardware on the Dell gx755 that
Dell is now pushing instead of the gx745. (Though the gx745 will be
orderable through the end of the year, I think; also note that while
gx755 installs now "work", the installed system doesn't have with a
working X config. I hope to have this fixed shortly, and the relevant
bits are all in AFS so the media won't change.)
I'm told we're very shortly going to see a new release of RHEL 4 (RHEL
4.6, specifically), and I expect to push out one more beta installer
based on that and which has its support structure in the athena cell
instead of the dev cell setup which it's using now.
A few people have reported problems with the current media reliably
hanging midway through loading the kernel. In the one case I've seen of
this in person, the media checksum was OK, but burning another copy with
the same checksum nonetheless worked fine. If anyone has seen the
problem and has any more insight on what's going on, I'd love to hear it.
(I expect the production version to be primarily used via PXE, and thus
hopefully immune to media issues.)
As always, send any questions to release-team@mit.edu.
Andrew Boardman/ZINC/ISDA/IS&T/MIT +1.617.253.4040 amb@mit.edu
