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Re: Failed installation from PXE for debathenta

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Landon)
Tue Oct 9 11:46:52 2012

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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:43:10 -0400
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I'll just go for the simple solution and burn a disk.

Thanks,
Colin


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Colin Landon wrote:
>
>  Hmm... I can't get to it either.
>>
>> it is in building 3 room 3-351.
>>
>> eth0 burned out on this machine and so we installed a ethernet card as
>> eth1. Could that be the source of the problem?
>>
>
> It could be.  We have open a ticket https://debathena.mit.edu/**
> trac/ticket/1239 <https://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/1239> where we
> erroneously assume that the network interface is named "eth0", but I
> couldn't say for certain that the ticket corresponds to your problem
> without looking at your machine.
>
> If you just want to have debathena on the machine, it might be easiest to
> install ubuntu from a CD, and then run the install-debathena.sh script from
> http://debathena.mit.edu/**install <http://debathena.mit.edu/install>(instead of trying a PXE install).
>
> If you do want to stick with a PXE install, we could probably come up with
> some more things to try.
>
> -Ben
>

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I&#39;ll just go for the simple solution and burn a disk.<div><br></div><di=
v>Thanks,</div><div>Colin</div><div><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On T=
ue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=
=3D"mailto:kaduk@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">kaduk@mit.edu</a>&gt;</span> wr=
ote:<br>

<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"im">On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Colin =
Landon wrote:<br>
<br>
</div><div class=3D"im"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0=
 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hmm... I can&#39;t get to it either.<br>
<br>
it is in building 3 room 3-351.<br>
<br>
eth0 burned out on this machine and so we installed a ethernet card as<br>
eth1. Could that be the source of the problem?<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
It could be. =A0We have open a ticket <a href=3D"https://debathena.mit.edu/=
trac/ticket/1239" target=3D"_blank">https://debathena.mit.edu/<u></u>trac/t=
icket/1239</a> where we erroneously assume that the network interface is na=
med &quot;eth0&quot;, but I couldn&#39;t say for certain that the ticket co=
rresponds to your problem without looking at your machine.<br>


<br>
If you just want to have debathena on the machine, it might be easiest to i=
nstall ubuntu from a CD, and then run the install-debathena.sh script from =
<a href=3D"http://debathena.mit.edu/install" target=3D"_blank">http://debat=
hena.mit.edu/<u></u>install</a> (instead of trying a PXE install).<br>


<br>
If you do want to stick with a PXE install, we could probably come up with =
some more things to try.<br>
<br>
-Ben<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div>

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