[21123] in Athena Bugs
Re: Linux-Athena Installer ISO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon Nov 25 15:32:17 2002
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:32:11 -0500
Message-Id: <200211252032.PAA01194@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: jdreed@MIT.EDU
CC: bugs@MIT.EDU, wdc@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <p05010417ba080de4bc04@[18.152.1.192]> (message from Jonathan
Reed on Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:32:55 -0500)
Reply-To: amb@MIT.EDU, wdc@MIT.EDU
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>Discussion on -c consult seemed to indicate that this was the best
>set of recipients. If that's wrong, let me know.
It's not really a bug so much as a feature request for the installer;
release-team is probably a better place for that sort of thing.
>So, the Linux-Athena installer ISO should really be more than just
>the ISO equivalent of the floppy. It seems, that since there is
>700MB available, it would be useful to include all RedHat 7.3 drivers
>on the ISO, so that you don't need to use drvnet.img and pcmcia.img
>when installing from the ISO.
This isn't the first time this has come up, and I'm hoping to have this
functionality in the next version of the install media. (Which is due
shortly, due to the midyear hardare update for the IBM cluster machines,
which require a different network driver. Grr.)
That said...
>But if the ISO is going to be distributed to students, it seems that it
>could be made far more useful by including all the drivers that RedHat
>7.3 includes, so that people don't have to go hunt for a 3c9xx or
>ne2k-pci card just to install it.
Well, there are at least a few other drivers on the boot floppy which
might be useful. There are a few kB left over, though; if you're seeing
a lot of cases where having a particular driver available on the boot
floppy would be useful, by all means send mail and I can see about
fitting it in.
