[20450] in Athena Bugs
Linux installer failures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 3 17:05:52 2002
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:04:14 -0400
Message-Id: <200207032104.RAA25412@lockpicking-tools.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@mit.edu
I ran the new Linux installer on an IBM Thinkpad A22P, using a D-Link
wireless ethernet card. Problems I noted (first two are known, the
rest might not be):
* We still can't install 9.1.
* My root partition (no separate /boot) was after the first 8GB of
the disk. lilo.conf needs the "lba32" option to make this work.
Setting lba32 unconditionally wouldn't work for really old
machines, so we'd have to detect the case where it's needed.
(Last sector of the boot partition is greater than some magic
number.)
* Though the installer did a fine job of detecting and configuring
my PCMCIA card, the installed machine came up with
/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia unconfigured. Presumably the installer
isn't doing some work which anaconda does.
* /etc/athena/rc.conf had a HOST value of localhost.localdomain.
* There was no /etc/passwd.local or /etc/shadow.local.
* root had an empty password.
* /etc/sysconfig/network did not exist.
Those last two items would be taken care of by the first PUBLIC=true
boot, but I did a custom install setting PUBLIC=false, so it didn't
happen. The installer needs to set this stuff up.
The third-to-last item would be actively sabotaged by the first
PUBLIC=true boot, unfortunately; that's long-standing bug in
/etc/init.d/athena-ws.
