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Athena 8.4/Red Hat 6.2 Beta installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas H. Grayson)
Fri Oct 13 18:56:34 2000
Message-Id: <200010132256.SAA12977@vault.mit.edu>
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:56:04 -0400
From: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Apparently I sent my bug report to the wrong address. Sorry if
you're seeing this twice!
Tom
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Subject: Athena 8.4/Red Hat 6.2 Beta installer
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:44:50 -0400
From: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg>
First, let me compliment SIPB for the outstanding job you have done
in adapting the standard Red Hat 6.2 installer to install the IS
version of Athena for Linux. I had planned to create a Linux-Athena
installation CD along the same lines, and I am delighted to find that
you've already done the hard work for me and provided a network
install capability at the same time. Great job!
Now for the comments. The beta installer works very well, except
for a few things:
- - The installer installs Athena 8.4.0, which would be fine, except
that an autoupdate doesn't happen on the first boot. Hence, I have
to manually run /etc/athena/update_ws to take the system to the
current release.
- - Control-Alt-F1 takes you to a console login prompt. The standard
Athena install disables logging onto the console in this fashion,
and displays the message "Type CTRL-ALT-F7 to login." You then
have to press Control-P at the xlogin screen to get to the console
login. (Incidentally, the SIPB install allows Control-Alt-Keyboard+
to work.)
- - Changing the hostname and IP address in /etc/athena/rc.conf does
NOT cause the workstation to fix /etc/sysconfig/network and
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to reflect the new
address as it is supposed to. I didn't check this, but probably
/etc/hosts should be fixed as well.
- - The onscreen documentation during the install has some typos, and
in some cases it hasn't been updated to reflect the SIPB customizations.
- - The install is very slow. This is probably an issue with either
the capabilities of your server or your connection to the network.
If it is within your power to improve this, please do so.
Thanks again for all your hard work. I look forward to the production
release.
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Thomas H. Grayson
Geographic Information Systems/Database Specialist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
MIT Room 9-532
105 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA
E-mail: thg@MIT.EDU
Phone: 617 253-3535 Fax: 617 253-3625
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