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Athena 8.0 Beta Test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (release-team@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jul 1 19:37:45 1996
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 19:37:40 -0400
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: release-team@MIT.EDU
The first public release of Athena Release 8.0 will be available for
SGI workstations in the beta cluster on Wednesday, July 3rd. This
round of testing will hereafter be refered to as "beta test." Release
8.0 supports Suns and SGIs only.
Your SGI will not take the update automatically. You must follow the
instructions for a manual update when you update to 8.0 initially, and
thereafter your machine will automatically take the updates to 8.0 (if
so configured).
The following machine(s) are in the beta cluster, and you may update
them whenever you wish beginning Wednesday morning (see section IV,
below):
andrew
I. Reporting Bugs
Report problems in the new release to testers@mit.edu.
II. Questions
If you have questions about taking the new release, send them
to the release team (release-team@mit).
III. Release Changes
The following features are included in this release:
* Irix 5.3 with AFS 3.4a
* Emacs 19.30 is the default
* Transcript 4.1
* MIME support has been built into MH but is turned off in
the default environment.
* Numerous bug fixes; features normally present in an Athena
release (general workstation cleanup, automatic updating,
rc.conf variables, prelogin options) are now largely present.
IV. Updating a workstation
1) Login as root via xlogin.
(The default password is "drroot", but I really hope
that your root password is different).
This time only, you will be running the update while X is
running. This is partly due to the fact that console (^P)
logins are not available under 7.7; they will be available
to you once you update to 8.0, however.
2) Get the new system packs attached.
Type:
/bin/athena/detach -h -n -a
/bin/athena/attach -h -n dev-sgisys
3) Type:
/srvd/update_ws reactivate
This may ask you to press <RETURN> or prompt you for other information.
The prompts should be intelligible (you've no doubt gone through all
these questions during previous updates; there's nothing radically new
in this update). The update should take approximately 75 minutes.
4) After the update says it has updated the version number and another
# prompt has appeared, type:
/etc/reboot
