[3118] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Athena install over AT&T Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Sun Oct 15 13:56:01 2000
Message-Id: <200010151755.NAA29904@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:52:03 EDT."
<200010151752.NAA15859@mansard.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:55:57 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
If you copied the tree in /afs/athena/system/rhlinux then you didn't
get the modified installer. Not sure if this is your problem, but it
seemed like a likely one. If you grabbed the tree from sipb-nfs, then
the problem may be more interesting.
tibbetts
On 10/15 you wrote:
> An FTP or HTTP install sounds like an outstanding idea, so I
> decided to give it a whirl. I copied the entire is-linux
> installation tree to another machine and served it up first by
> ftp and then by http. The install floppy can launch the second
> stage install, but then the installation options are the standard
> ones for Red Hat 6.2--the Athena Workstation option is not
> available. Also, it stays with the text-based installer, at
> least to this point. I gather that HTTP or FTP installs are
> text-only. That's fine, since I can handle configuring X myself.
> But what happened to Athena?
>
> Tom
>
> > From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> > Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:13:03 -0400
> > Subject: Re: Athena install over AT&T Broadband
> >
> > > 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.
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