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Re: Slide comments:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Jan 8 16:25:08 1995
To: jered@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Jan 1995 14:20:25 +0500."
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Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 16:25:03 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Mostly fixed, with a few exceptions:
> 'Because new versions of DOS keep a seperate a seperate copy of the
> disk's partition table....create your partitions with DOS fdisk...'
> Uhh..I have seen nothing about this, and everything that I have read
> has stated to use DOS fdisk for dos partitions, Linux fdisk for Linux
> partitions, OS/2 fdisk for OS/2 partitions, etc. Could you provide a
> source.
Either will work in this case, but making partitions for a given
operating system with that operating system's fdisk is a good idea, so
I changed the instructions to reflect this.
> To retrieve the packages, you tell people to ftp and log
> in. However, AFAIK, ftp is not kerberized, so their Athena passwd is
> sent cleartext over the net. For some people, this is a Bad
> Thing(tm). I know that there's a safer way to get the packages, but
> I can't remember it. Anyone?
Short of mounting the translator (and installing the afsxnfs package
to get the Linux-AFS tarfile, since you need tokens), I don't know of
an easy way.
> Mention that /etc/athena/login/config will probably have to be
> changed to point to the proper executables.
It will? Normally people make a symlink /usr/bin/X11/X ->
XF86_WHATEVER (in particular, startx won't work without that), so no
changes should need to be made.
> I think that Linux-AFS 1.1.72 with Linux 1.1.73 (or Linux 1.1.76
> with Linux-AFS 1.1.76, but that's for_testers right now.) is the
> most stable. Mention adding rc.afs to rc.local.
1.1.72 with Linux 1.1.73 is the version where everyone's having
trouble with having files randomly unlinked on the local disk. I've
heard of no such problems with 1.1.68.
> Maybe mention that it's a good idea to make runlevel 6 for AFS and
> Xlogin, while leaving a runlevel 5 for not Athena boot.
This requires a lot of changes to the inittab file, and a higher
probability of leaving your system unbootable, but we can mention it
in the class.
> Maybe one of the slides should mention srvtabs and Kerberos and
> such.
See slide #9.
