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Notes on installation, and zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 21 12:46:18 1994
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 12:45:54 -0500
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Cc: marc@MIT.EDU
While installing Slackware, I noted that there is an option to install
via NFS. It would make installation really easy if we were to export
the mirror via NFS. The AFS-NFS translator, of course, can't handle
that kind of volume.
(As it is, I did the install with one floppy, but that was only
because the floppies I bought didn't work for some reason, so I had to
overwrite my boot-net disk with the uniboot disk after making a
minimal root on my hard drive and FTPing slackware.)
I see that Sal has been busy with the packages. Some notes:
* It might be nice to have rkinit and rkinitd in the kerberos
packages, even though they don't come from the Cygnus source tree.
* Installing Kerberos was a snap.
* Installing zephyr was less of a snap:
- Apparently, /etc/athena/zinit is a link to
/bin/athena/attach. I don't know why, or what it does.
Thus, you have to install attach to get zwgc to even start.
- Having installed attach (but not mounted AFS, due to client
credential errors--I'm going to look back through the
linux-dev archives to see if I can figure out why that
happens), I can get zwgc to start, but now I get really
weird behavior: from an xterm on my maze (my home machine),
I can zlocate myself and find myself on maze, but from an
xterm on athena.dialup, I'm not locatable. If I run zwgc
on, say, puttanesca, then maze reports me as being on maze
and puttanesca, but athena.dialup only thinks I'm on
puttanesca.
Also, on maze, I receive syslogs and <message,*,*>, but not
<test,*,*>, or personals.
And I can't zwrite anyone ("authentication error detected").
I am running zhm.
I'll see if mounting AFS helps. Rather annoying that zwgc would have
a dependency on AFS.
--GBH
