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Re: Debathena cluster installer question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Jul 20 15:32:19 2010
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:32:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Oliver Thomas <othomas@mit.edu>
cc: "release-team@mit.edu" <release-team@mit.edu>
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1. Ubuntu is generally good about hardware compatibility -- if there isn't
anything on the Internet about Ubuntu not working in the first place,
nothing we do should really affect that. A cursory Google of [optiplex 980
ubuntu] finds that Dell in some circumstances even distributes those
machines with Ubuntu, and some sporadic reports of sound not working.
A Debathena live CD or even a stock Ubuntu live CD would probably be the
fastest way of testing hardware compatibility, such as whether he has the
sound cards that are affected by this bug, given access to one of these
machines. (Of course, we should generate Lucid Debathena live CDs at some
point...)
2. Regarding -cluster vs. -workstation, there should be no reason not to
use -cluster if you don't need to install any software for hardware
compatibility. For instance, we've had SIPB's scanner briefly hooked up to
a -cluster testing machine, and it worked fine because Ubuntu comes with
scanning software and the drivers for a USB scanner are built in. However,
there might be other reasons to prefer -workstation.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Oliver Thomas wrote:
> From a follow-up with Fletch, he's still undecided between cluster and
> workstation because he thinks there may be a need to comnect external HW
> to the machines (no details on what exactly yet) so if we have a
> recommendation one way or the other he'd be interested in that too.
>
> Oliver
>
> Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>
> Something to talk about at our next release team meeting. I don't know
> that we have any direct experience with debathena cluster on these. If
> the answer is buy one and try it, we can probably arrange that. Given
> the number of machines Fletcher is talking about, I'd like to prep this
> for him as well as we can to avoid too manual fixes on machines one he's
> installed them.
>
> Oliver
>
> Hey Oliver,
>
> I'm sure you're the wrong person to ask about this but at least point me
> in the right direction. :-)
>
> We're going to be deploying between another 50-100 Debathena machines at
> the end of this summer. I'm curious if anyone has done anything with
> the newish Dell Optiplex 980s Core i5s in installing Debathena with your
> cluster installer.
>
> -Fletch
>
>
