[21059] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Converting to Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Burke)
Wed Feb 9 13:39:00 1994
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 94 13:41:28
From: burke@MIT.EDU (Jerry Burke)
To: Glenn Moglen <moglen@storm.MIT.EDU>
> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 11:27:18 -0500
> From: Glenn Moglen <moglen@storm.MIT.EDU>
> To: burke@MIT.EDU
> Subject: Converting to Athena
>
> Dear Mr. Burke,
>
> We have a private DECstation 5000/200 that we would like to convert to a
> private ATHENA workstation. I spoke with Janet Daly and she told me that
> she believed that the DECstation 5000/200 is NOT a platform that is
> supported by Athena. Could you verify that or is it possible to get this
> machine converted over to Athena? I may be reached at:
>
> 253-5483 or moglen@storm.mit.edu
>
> Thank you.
>
> - Glenn Moglen
>
Hi Glen,
Please read this over, we cannot promise that we can athenize your
workstation, but we do need the following information in order to decide
if we can. In addition please read the following comments we have, this
is a draft of things we need to let people know up front, so we do not
set unrealistic expectations.. I hope it does not sound terse.
Is this workstation purchased through MIT?
WHo has the maintenance agreement (warranty)
There are costs associated with the use of hotline and maintenance cost.
I won't know what they are until we get the information needed.
We need to know the following:
> Machine Type and Model#
> Monitor Type and Model#
> Serial #
> MITTag#
> Hostname
> IP Address
>You need at least 24MB of ram and over 400MB harddisk space.
>
The purpose of this message is to make sure there are clear
understandings about athenizing your workstation.
We do not have any experience installing on the model you have. We are
willing to give it try, but can make no guarantees about it working. We
will make several attempts to install the machine, but may decide that
it will not work.
Whether or not the machine is successfully installed, all data on the
disk may be destroyed. Unfortunatley, we can not restore any files
that may be of value. Your best bet is to have recent backups.
The installation fee does *not* cover any software beyond the basic
Athena public workstation configuration. Specifically, it does not
include software configuration necessary to configure the workstation
for remote file service (such as NFS), the ability to attach a local
printer, setup of an Xterminal, etc... Workstations with this type of
configuration are typically called servers. This type of software
configuration is the responsibility of the workstation manager.
If needed we will install the software necessary for the users of the
workstation to take advantage of Kerberos authentication. The file
is typically called a "serve tab" and is installed in
/etc/athena/srvtab.
Our installations are on-site at the customer's location, using standard
Athena installation procedures and binaries. We do not pickup/delivery
equipment for installation at our site.
Lately there's been a lot of confusion over the Athenization of private
workstations. We're really not staffed to support Athenization of
private workstations that have a non-standard hardware configuration.
[Note that, at the present time,
there is no additional fee for non-standard hardware.] We mostly do
this in our spare time, as a means to help others on campus.
We won't proceed further until we hear from you.
If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.
Jerry Burke
3-5103
burke@mit.edu
