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Re: Debathena and Linux Mint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Mar 25 13:01:23 2009
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:00:11 -0400
To: "Antony H. Nguyen" <anguyen@mit.edu>
Ask your friend if his system has an ICH10 motherboard chipset.
Just this minute I tracked down a problem where the 2.6.26 kernel
starts printing warnings on every clock tick for certain hardware.
The Dell Optiplex 760 and the HP Compaq DC7900.
-Bill
On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Antony H. Nguyen wrote:
> 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
>
