[3110] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Athena 8.4/Red Hat 6.2 Beta installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Fri Oct 13 20:42:24 2000
Message-Id: <200010140042.UAA04506@myxomycete.mit.edu>
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, cfox@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:56:04 EDT."
<200010132256.SAA12977@vault.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:42:18 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> - - 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.
If you have hesiod information, it should schedule an update, as soon
as it runs reactivate. This will cause it to update sometime over the
next few hours (unless, of course, somone's logged in, in which case
it'll happen later).
This is part of the regular update procedure, and is done to prevent
all the machines taking a new release at once, to distribute the load on
the network. Part of the difficulty of having the installer circumvent
this feature is that people often don't get their hesiod information until
after they've installed, so in a normal case, I'd expect the machine to
take the update sometime early the next morning.
Perhaps we should document this better, though.
> - - 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.)
This is a known bug/oversight. It'll be fixed soon.
> - - 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.
This is another known bug. What happened is that the following line got
omitted from /etc/athena/rc.conf. Fix that, and it'll run syncconf on
boot (or run syncconf manually, so you don't have to go editing configs).
SYNCCONFIG=true; export SYNCCONFIG # Syncronize configurations?
It will be fixed in athena 8.4.15, and we might implement an interim
fix before that.
> - - 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.
I'm not sure what you consider unacceptable here. From campus, it's
been taking up 45min to an hour, although behind mediaone, it'll take
about three hours. If we allowed FTP installs (this would likely only
be supported in text mode), we might be able to cut the time by a bit.
Thank you for your feedback. Do let us know if you notice anything else.
-Camilla
