[3688] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Desupporting the SIPB Linux/Athena 8.4 installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Tue Jul 16 16:37:07 2002
To: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, zacheiss@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "16 Jul 2002 10:37:03 EDT."
<874rezeo34.fsf@STRATTON-TWO-EIGHTY-SIX.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:33:56 -0400
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
Now is probably a good time to start desupporting our installer
and putting pointers up to the new IS installer is a step in
the right direction.
Keep in mind that the installing athena web pages by IS still
point to the SIPB installer (or at least the install instructions).
I presume this will go away once the IS installer is completely
documented and supported.
What this means is that changes that you make to our own installer
instructions to point to an IS installer need to be very painfully
clear to indicate that
1) it is not SIPB's installer
and
2) it is not yet supported by IS -- Garry you might have an opinion
on this ....
-Angie
In message <874rezeo34.fsf@STRATTON-TWO-EIGHTY-SIX.MIT.EDU>,
Arun A Tharuvai writes:
>
>Users are still finding SIPB's installer pretty regularly, and are
>having problems using it with the new hardware they have these
>days. Now that there's an I/S installer in the bootkit locker, we
>should think about desupporting our own installer.
>
>As a first step, we should also update web/linux/www to mention the
>bootkit installer. I've put a preliminary new version in
>http://web.mit.edu/linux/www/FAQ/new.html Feel free to send me
>suggestions. If I hear no objections, I'll put this up later
>today. I'll also deal with sending updates to the current OLC stock
>answers referencing the subject.
>
>Arun
