[1146] in athena10
Re: Athena 10 and Intrepid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Feb 13 16:22:13 2009
Cc: Athena 10 <athena10@mit.edu>
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200902132047.n1DKleq1005291@pothole.mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:21:15 -0500
[moving to athena10@]
We should probably be actively discouraging people from installing
debathena-cluster, I think. With the changes we've made to it, it's a
poor choice for anything but public machines. Anyone, for example,
who installs Athena 10 via PXE without understanding the implications
of the login chroot will be very very sad when they attempt to, say,
change the root password and save a bunch of stuff to /var/local, only
to find that it vanished next time they log in.
Once we go live with Early, perhaps the PXE installer could be updated
to tell people that they really really really don't want this.
-Jon
On Feb 13, 2009, at 3:47 PM, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>
> This:
>
>> Just curious: Is it intentional that the default plain-Ubuntu
>> version
>> with the PXE image is Intrepid, but the install script on
>> athena10.mit.edu only works up to Hardy?
>
> ...is now fixed.
>
>> Incidentally, I've installed Athena 10 on a few machines, and so far
>> it's worked quite nicely. The only thing I've missed is an
>> "Advanced"
>> option in the PXE install that still does a full Athena 10 install
>> (not
>> just Ubuntu) but lets me do my own partitioning / setting up of weird
>> hardware / etc.
>
> That's basically equivalent to installing vanilla ubuntu and then
> fetching/running the script yourself, but it's a pretty common request
> and I (or somebody) will likely expand the install options for same
> soon.
> The unattended PXE install is just a vanilla intrepid desktop install
> with the following configuration:
>
> - cluster root password
> - no regular user account
> - LVM disk config, with free space allocated for login snapshots
> - ubuntu.media.mit.edu configured as the mirror
>
> ...after which the install-athena10.sh script is fetched and run, with
> automatic defaults of:
>
> - install debathena-cluster
> - install debathena-extra-software
> - install debathena-thirdparty (this is new, and currently a bit
> broken)
> - on one specific cluster hardware platform, install an extra driver
> to
> make X work.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
