[2078] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: installation worked from sipb-nfs:/redhat/4.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Aug 20 11:11:09 1998
To: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 20 Aug 1998 11:10:42 -0400
In-Reply-To: mhpower@MIT.EDU's message of "Thu, 20 Aug 1998 04:19:14 -0400"
mhpower@MIT.EDU writes:
> I needed to reinstall a Linux machine whose disk died today (it was a
> 1 Gb IBM disk) and decided to try the linux-net-install procedure with
> the one change that, at the NFS directory selection screen, I
> substituted "sipb-nfs" for "small-gods". The installation appeared to
> have worked correctly, and I did check the NFS traffic on 18.181 to
> make sure the data was actually not coming from small-gods. I haven't
> ever tried to do an installation from small-gods, though, so I can't
> comment on whether it was any different or took more or less time.
Great. Do you remember approximately how long it took? Under
normal conditions, installs off small-gods to other campus machines
take about half an hour.
> Would it be worthwhile announcing to sipb-office that if anyone
> happens to call mentioning a small-gods access problem, that they
> should try using sipb-nfs instead? I suppose it might be reasonable to
Almost certainly.
> create a new boot.img after replacing small-gods with sipb-nfs in the
> install earlymethods.c file, but whether that's worth it depends on
> whether people expect that there'll continue to be 4.2 installations.
It probably would be...updating the boot image wouldn't be too hard,
and I don't know how soon the upcoming release will be ready.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
