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Re: Athena install over AT&T Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Sun Oct 15 16:41:52 2000
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU, thg@MIT.EDU
Cc: alex_c@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Oct 2000 16:41:43 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Thomas H. Grayson"'s message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:59:16 -0400"
Message-Id: <sjmk8b9x2ew.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
The problem is that we don't have an updated version of netstg2.img
that includes the Athena installer. Building one is not relatively
difficult, but it's going to take some time to get it to work in our
environment. Maybe I can get to it if I have the time, but I've got
real-life work that has to take precedence.
-derek
Note to linux-dev: Building the stage-2 images requires a combination
of running 'upd-instroot' from the anaconda tree (which also depends
upon the instroot tree, but installs data into the 'trees' subdir),
and then running 'mkstage2' from the trees subdir. Also note that
these scripts may not work as-is without a bit of tweaking.
Note to alex_c: let me know when you can incorporate your code into
/mit/linux/devel/redhat/6.2. Once you're in there I can try to build
a stage-2 image using your real code.
"Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.
> >
> > -*- http://www.mit.edu/~tibbetts -*- finger tibbetts@monk.mit.edu -*-
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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