[1702] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Redhat 4.2/Linux-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 4 17:11:38 1997
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 17:11:22 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, Chris Murphy <chris@MIT.EDU>,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1693] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
I don't have a whole lot of stake in what SIPB-Athena installation
looks like, but there's a bit of confusion going on here:
[Erik:]
>> But there really needs to be a way to easily install portions of
>> the system *without* having to get AFS working (or even without
>> being connected to the network). The ability to do this is
>> actually one of
[Derek:]
> You have to be on the network to download the RPMS in the first
> place. And Athena _IS_ a networked system -- you need a network in
> order to use Athena. Therefore, I see no reason that "installation
> without a network" should be a requirement of the Athena subsystem.
Please don't equate "on the network" with "using AFS". AFS performs
exceedingly poorly over a slow link. On my Tether account, it takes
several times longer to retrieve files over AFS than it does over,
say, HTTP.
