[915] in athena10
a moderately stable PXE installer for debathena-cluster (or just Intrepid)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Jan 22 18:55:38 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:54:39 -0500
Message-Id: <200901222354.n0MNsdsI017097@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@MIT.EDU
I've finished most of what I wanted to do for the installer the PXE
server is pointed at. If one boots from network on MITnet, presses F8,
selects "Athena 10", enters "1", enters an IP number, and hits return
once or twice more, one gets an otherwise-unattended install of a
debathena-cluster machine (with debathena-extra-software) in (on
reasonably fast hardware with good net) about a half-hour.
It's using a hacked-up version of install-athena10.sh which I plan to
eventually merge back into the regular one.
Note that the "Athena 10" option on the PXE server also has a "punt this
Athena stuff and just give me Intrepid" option. If anyone thinks that
some intermediate options would be useful (perhaps to do a normal Ubuntu
install and then automatically run the debathena install script), they're
easy enough to add.
It's currently setting machines up to point at the repositories on
ubuntu.media and athena10.mit.edu, which in the ubuntu.media case I
believe is OK but I'm working to get more confirmation on. (Whether to
use athena10.mit.edu or debathena.mit.edu is another question under
debate, but presumably if/when we merge them we can make both names
work.)
I also plan to have the debathena-thirdparty metapackage included for
cluster installs once it exists.
