[2964] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: successful athena installation (after some help)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Sat Sep 9 22:24:25 2000
To: John D Dunagan <jdunagan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 09 Sep 2000 22:24:19 -0400
In-Reply-To: John D Dunagan's message of "Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:23:25 -0400"
Message-Id: <tsl3dj9ugq4.fsf@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>
>>>>> "John" == John D Dunagan <jdunagan@MIT.EDU> writes:
John> Hi, I put the sipb linux installer (the one in
John> /mit/linux/rh-6.2/bootnet.img) on a disk, booted my machine,
John> and everything installed. I did have to make the two
John> following changes after installing
John> in /etc/athena/rc.conf, I had to change the line HOST=; to
John> HOST=cormorant.lcs.mit.edu; (my hostname)
John> in /etc/resolv.conf, I had to change the nameserver
John> 18.60.0.170 to nameserver 127.0.0.1
John> I agreed with helpful guy from SIPB that the second problem
John> was due to a typo on my part.
Actually, both of these were because of your nameserver error. The
install customization script requires that it be able to look up your
hostname from your IP address to make sure you entered it consistently
with DNS. I think this explains your later xlogin problem, but I'm
not sure why syncconfig didn't fix things.
