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Re: Athena install over AT&T Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas H. Grayson)
Sun Oct 15 13:59:29 2000
Message-Id: <200010151759.NAA15883@mansard.mit.edu>
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU, thg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:55:57 EDT."
<200010151755.NAA29904@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:59:16 -0400
From: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
I used the sipb-nfs copy of the distribution. My copy has the SIPB-
modified 'hdlist' and 'comps' files in RedHat/base.
Tom
> From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:55:57 -0400
> Subject: Re: Athena install over AT&T Broadband
>
>
> 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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