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Re: Athena 10 and Intrepid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Fri Feb 13 15:48:49 2009
Message-Id: <200902132047.n1DKleq1005291@pothole.mit.edu>
To: Adam Seering <aseering@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:35:27 EST."
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:47:40 -0500
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
This:
> Just curious: Is it intentional that the default plain-Ubuntu version
> with the PXE image is Intrepid, but the install script on
> athena10.mit.edu only works up to Hardy?
...is now fixed.
> Incidentally, I've installed Athena 10 on a few machines, and so far
> it's worked quite nicely. The only thing I've missed is an "Advanced"
> option in the PXE install that still does a full Athena 10 install (not
> just Ubuntu) but lets me do my own partitioning / setting up of weird
> hardware / etc.
That's basically equivalent to installing vanilla ubuntu and then
fetching/running the script yourself, but it's a pretty common request
and I (or somebody) will likely expand the install options for same soon.
The unattended PXE install is just a vanilla intrepid desktop install
with the following configuration:
- cluster root password
- no regular user account
- LVM disk config, with free space allocated for login snapshots
- ubuntu.media.mit.edu configured as the mirror
...after which the install-athena10.sh script is fetched and run, with
automatic defaults of:
- install debathena-cluster
- install debathena-extra-software
- install debathena-thirdparty (this is new, and currently a bit broken)
- on one specific cluster hardware platform, install an extra driver to
make X work.
Thanks for the feedback!
