[1056] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Hand-modifications to make Linux-Athena work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Bromberg)
Fri Sep 15 22:12:29 1995
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, linux-help@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ddaniel@vigor.JPL.NASA.GOV
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 15 Sep 1995 21:31:00 -0400.
<199509160131.VAA22083@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 19:11:36 PDT
From: Daniel Bromberg <ddaniel@rx7.JPL.NASA.GOV>
> I'm trying to create a configuration script to help automate
> Linux-Athena installation. To create this script, I am trying to come
There are some minor modifications I can think of:
1) add -d1 to the gettime command, since we all know internal PC
clocks need frequent re-synching. afsd will set the clock as well but
the console messages might be annoying or the user might not want to
run AFS but still run kerberos.
2) does the directory /mit need to be explicity created?
3) what about making sure /var/vice/cache is a separate partition of
sufficient size? Also we need to insure it gets mounted at boot time.
(/etc/fstab addition)
4) inform the installer about /etc/nocreate and /etc/noremote (what
they do) and optionally create them.
5) I'm not sure what you're adding to inittab but after discussing the
problem a long time ago with nygren, calling this script instead of dm
directly fixed a hung x-server problem:
#!/bin/sh
sleep 1
/usr/athena/etc/dm /usr/athena/etc/login/config ttysf console
sleep 2
6) Should any symlinks be made to the languishing linux-athena syspack
inside /usr/athena?
#3 reminds me -- how much idiot-proofing should be done? Maybe we
should check for a compatible kernel version, valid X installation...?
Just some ideas. More comments?
Daniel
