[42492] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Athena fees
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kelin Whipple)
Wed Mar 18 13:18:28 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:31:52 -0500
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: kxw@MIT.EDU (Kelin Whipple)
Cc: noah@darla.mit.edu, kmc@techsquare.com, linda@ocean.mit.edu
Dear Athena -
I have been discussing the upcoming roll out of Athena support for SGI O2
workstations with Naomi Schmidt (forward of one of our correspondences
below).
She has offered the opportunity to Athenize one of my private O2
workstations as a Beta site. Naomi has indicated that there will be no
charge as a Beta user until the official release is made. If all goes well
with the Beta install and with the custom configurations we will need to
install to operate efficiently in my research lab, then I plan to athenize
5 private O2 workstations.
The machine I would like to Athenize is "parbat.mit.edu", and sits in room
54-1017
configuration:
O2 R5000 200MHz, 1MB SC, CD ROM, 128MB Ram, 2GB hard drive
Serial number: 08006905e2e9
Please let me know if there are any problems, if not please let me know
when you will be able to do the Athena install.
Thanks
Kelin
ps. I will be out of town 3/20 - 3/30, so please coordinate with Linda
Meinke (linda@ocean.mit.edu) and/or Kai McBride (kmc@techsquare.com) while
I am away.
>
>>What I would like to do is to Athenize one of my O2 workstations
>>right away to test how easily the local customization with serving
>>homespaces and licensed software from a non-athena machine works.
>>I wonder if Athena personnel *faculty liaison?* would be available
>>to help us handle the necessary customization?
>
>What you should do is send email to hotline@mit.edu, telling them
>that you and I had talked and that you are going to be a beta
>tester of Athena on the O2. Tell them that you already have your
>machine and they'll come over and do the athenization. (I think
>you may need a floppy drive for this to start up the process - if
>you don't have one, ask them what you can do.) Installation of
>Athena on an O2 takes quite a while - somewhere between 1 and 3
>hours. As for necessary customization after Athena is installed,
>you should start by reading the Private Workstation Owners Guide
>for general facts, even thought the specific commands are for the
>Sun SPARC. Then you might want to contact faculty liaison Craig
>Counterman (ccount@mit.edu), who has an O2 on his desk as his
>primary production machine.
>
> Naomi
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Kelin X. Whipple
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Rm 54-1016
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
tel: 617-253-2578
fax: 617-252-1800
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