[3620] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: SIPB Installer for Athena Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Jan 18 13:51:02 2002
To: Michael Khusid <misha37@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 18 Jan 2002 13:48:25 -0500
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Michael Khusid <misha37@yahoo.com> writes:
> Is version Redhat 6.2/Athena 8.4 listed on the www.mit.edu/~linux
> considered the latest version?
No. Well, not exactly. There is no installer to directly install
Linux-Athena 9.0 (which is based on red hat 7.1). You either need to
install 8.4 using the SIPB installer and upgrade to 9.0, or you can
install RH7.1 and run a "kludgey installer" to convert to
Linux-Athena.
> Is it possible to install Athena 9.0 on a non-athena-standard hardware?
yes, see my previous paragraph for your two options[1].
> Thanks,
> Michael
-derek
[1] A third option is to help develop a RH7.1-based installer for
Linux-Athena 9.0. Most of the work has been done; all that remains is
some python hacking to upgrade the 6.2 python hacks to the 7.1 python
base installer.
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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