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Re: Please poind on SIPB IS Linux Athena Installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri Sep 8 05:23:40 2000
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 05:23:26 -0400
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
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On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Sam Hartman wrote:
> Please let me know what your experience is. I want to know if it
> worked, bombed out, or worked with significant help. Please include:
I used the SIPB I/S-Linux-Athena installer tonight.
It mostly worked okay, but I'm reporting two problems with setting up
the network.
A brief overview of my situation: I'm installing a laptop, so booted
with the the pcmcia.img boot disk. I did a text-mode install, because
X doesn't properly auto-detect my display. None of the options in the
first menu of installation choices mentioned "athena", so I selected
the one for custom or expert install. Once the list of packages came
up, I accepted the default list.
The packages sucked across the network okay, but after they finished,
my laptop was not in a state where network would work. One of the
problems is the known one: redhat's init scripts start network before
they try to start pcmcia devices. The other problem is that my
/etc/athena/rc.conf file contained blank (null) entries for HOST and ADDR.
I didn't see any error messages which might suggest why rc.conf had
null entries for these two variables. I fixed the problem by hand.
-Jacob
