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Linux-Athena 5.2 available for testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Sat Jan 2 18:25:08 1999
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 18:25:00 -0500
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Announcing Linux-Athena 5.2 Beta Test
SIPB and linux-dev are somewhat proud to announce the (pre)availability
of Linux-Athena 5.2.
Spiffy new features include:
- Based on RedHat Linux 5.2, which uses the spiffy thread-safe glibc
(i.e. libc 6) shared library.
- Based on Athena 8.2, which has spiffy security features like krb5
and an ssh client and server.
- New versions of tons of Linux and Athena software.
However, there are still some known problems both with the
installation procedure and with the software, so we don't recommend
that you install this system unless you are willing to deal with a few
bugs as we iron them out.
Here's a quick overview of how to install it. (We hope to improve the
installation procedure eventually. For example, we hope to bring back
the option to install using "system packs". For now, it will install
all Athena software on your local disk.)
1. Get a computer to install it on. If you want to install it on a
computer currently running Linux-Athena 4.2, make sure you back up
your files first. We recommend you do a clean new installation rather
than an upgrade.
2. Create a RedHat 5.2 boot disk. You can use the image
/mit/linux/redhat/redhat-5.2/i386/images/boot.img.
Boot from this boot disk.
3. When prompted, enter your IP address, netmask, gateway, and
nameserver. The default values for these addresses will be WRONG.
(We hope to fix this eventually.) Replace the default values with the
correct values.
4. Enter "sipb-nfs" as the NFS server and "/redhat/5.2/i386" as the
installation path.
5. Select "Custom" install. Do not select "Workstation" or "Server".
Those options do not contain Athena software.
6. Select the package sets that you want. (The default set of
packages is pretty good.) From here, the rest of the installation
is pretty much like previous versions of Linux-Athena.
After the installation is done and you reboot, you should have a
more-or-less working Linux Athena system. There are several
configuration files you may want to play with, including:
- You must modify /etc/resolv.conf and change the nameserver line to
"nameserver 127.0.0.1". Hopefully, we will find some way to automate
this process.
- We recommend that you edit /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and change
"DAEMON" from "yes" to "no". Again, we should automate this.
- After you have your X server configured, you may want to change the
default runlevel in /etc/inittab to 5, which will run the Athena
Xlogin.
- You may choose to edit /etc/athena/rc.conf to turn on things like
sshd and telnetd, to allow remote access to your system.
That's it for now... If you have any problems or questions, send
email to linux-dev@mit.edu.
Enjoy,
Sal Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
MIT SIPB
