[2926] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Please poind on SIPB IS Linux Athena Installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Sat Aug 26 15:55:03 2000
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 15:54:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-office@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
We are finally at a state where it is possible to install a machine
that successfully auto updates and correctly installs exactly the
right set of Athena packages. So, we would like to get a limited
group of people to thoroughly test this installer even though it is
still very rough, in the hope that we might feel comfortable telling
people about it by next Tuesday.
This is still very much Alpha or pre-Alpha. Please test this as much
as you have time to test, but please do not make the installer
available to people not currently on linux-dev or sipb-office. Also
please understand that this may destroy all your data and/or your
computer. This is a test and is in no way supported.
Build a regular boot-net
or pcmcia floppy using images found in
/afs/athena/system/rhlinux/redhat-6.2/images. There is a scriptat
/mit/linux/rh-6.2/linux-install-floppy that will make a bootnet image
(an image for desktops without PCMCIA) that will be moved into the
binary directories when/if we release.
I'm not ready to make the floppy image with correct defaults
available, so you will have to fill in several things:
* Select NFS install
* The server is sipb-nfs.mit.edu (18.181.0.36)
* The directory is /u3/is-linux/redhat-6.2
* A nameserver is w20ns (18.70.0.160)
* You must select the Athena Workstation button ; the Gnome, KDE, and
Server buttons may still be there but do not work. The Custom
button does not do quite the right thing although this should change
later this weekend.
* Do not add any local users; this screen will disappear.
Please let me know what your experience is. I want to know if it
worked, bombed out, or worked with significant help. Please include:
* How you partitioned the disk if manual
* What kind of system (processor/memory/hardware/ethernet)
* What kind of install you did/any non-default options you choose.
* What failed, including any error messages
