[1858] in athena10
Re: Debathena and Linux Mint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antony H. Nguyen)
Wed Mar 25 12:00:48 2009
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:00:32 -0400
From: "Antony H. Nguyen" <anguyen@MIT.EDU>
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To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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Oops, I didn't finish. I reinstalled Mint 'cause I couldn't figure out
how to disable Debathena. I think I might try Debathena login instead of
workstation.
My friend also tried to install Debathena but using Ubuntu and for some
reason, as he was installing the workstation, there were like blobs of
errors flying past his terminal and eventually, his system froze and his
Ubuntu doesn't have a taskbar anymore and nothing ever shows up besides
his wallpaper. I don't know, it's just a heads up.
Evan Broder wrote:
> Oh, whoops - I mentioned this at some point when I was drafting my
> reply, and then accidentally pulled it out.
>
> You'll have to use the manual installation method, instead of our
> installer script - the documentation is at
> http://debathena.mit.edu/advanced-installation
>
> - Evan
>
> Antony H. Nguyen wrote:
>
>> I actually can't install Debathena on Mint. The terminal tells me that
>> I'm not running a current release of Ubuntu or Debian. I have Felicia
>> running (6 which is based on Intrepid, so it should've worked).
>>
>> Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> I used Debathena with Xandros (a Debian derivative) on an Eee PC
>>> early last term, and it worked fine, so I suspect the same is true of
>>> Linux Mint. I'd be interested to hear your experiences with Linux
>>> Mint, although it wouldn't be a development priority.
>>>
>>> To clarify a bit on the release date, the "Debathena Beta" verbiage
>>> refers more to the Athena 10 project, i.e., rolling it out on all
>>> cluster systems. The software has been released for personal machines
>>> and in use since around 2007.
>>>
>>>
--
Antony H. Nguyen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
