[3116] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Athena install over AT&T Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Oct 14 15:13:06 2000
Message-Id: <200010141913.PAA05651@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:00:31 EDT."
<200010141900.PAA04188@arrowsmith.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:13:03 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> What could be going wrong? Obviously my PC is finding the SIPB NFS
> share. Does it restrict something to .mit.edu addresses only?
No, no such restriction. The Linux NFS client just isn't perfectly
reliable as used by the install floppy (empirically speaking) and it
tends to fail over a MediaOne link. I have this problem myself maybe
75% of the time I've tried to install from home, with the failure
point varying. If you retry, it might work.
Unfortunately, we need to use NFS to get the graphical install (since
many of the necessary materials don't fit onto a floppy), and we need
the graphical install in order to get the X configuration done before
the disk is repartitioned and all the packages are installed--which is
a good thing since X configuration has a reasonably high chance of
failing.
Still, it would be better if people could use the text install with
FTP or HTTP instead of NFS.
