Fermi Linux 7xtest RC1(Release Candidate 1) 08/20/01 & 08/22/01 This release is based on RedHat Linux 7.1 with the following changes. For more details on the changes see farther below. Items with a * are Fermi Linux change related. If no * then it is a generic RedHat 7.1 issue. Please read this entire document before installing. *Locations linux2.fnal.gov:/export/linux/7xtest/i386/ Ftp will not be available for this beta. Will add at a later time. *Floppy image locations ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/7xtest/i386/images/bootnet.img To make the install floppy. Put a scratch floppy in "/dev/fd0". Download the above file and dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0 Note that there is a "drivers" floppy image for "other drivers". See the RedHat documentation for what is on this floppy. The following has been updated. Some of the items are the same as before even though nothing changed. This is because the info is important and I did not want to have to tell people to go and look at the older release notes. There is more detail at the end. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0*. Fixed a problem where the 2.4.3-12 errata install kernel was passing a umask of 000 to the installer. This causes all files , which are created on the fly and not belonging to a rpm, to be created with permissions of rw-rw-rw. Fixed via a change to anaconda the installer. Either version of the install floppy should work now. 1*. All RedHat errata as of August 20, 2001. 2*. Full workgroup support still. Workgroups please test. The following workgroups have been tested by us as they are "ours". Fermi Generic Desktop (formerly FermiStandAlone) OSS ConsoleServer GenericFarm Farms 3. UPS/UPD bootstrap is now automatically installed as in 6.1.x. upsupdbootstrap-2.2-2.i386.rpm and one of upsupdbootstrap-local-2.2-2.i386.rpm upsupdbootstrap-generic-2.2-2.i386.rpm Each of the workgroups that installed ups/upd before now has it automatically installed again into the same area as before. A update still does NOT install over an old version it just ignores the install request. The workgroups that install upsupdbootstrap are Astro CDFlevel3 CDFonline CMSdesktop CMSserver ConsoleServer Farms Fermi Generic Desktop (FermiStandAlone) FOCUS GenericFarm ODS RIP SDSS Theory 4*. Upgrades These should work now. Note that upgrades requirements for both disk and swap can be large. You select a "workgroup upgrade" choice from the "Install/Fermi Upgrade" scroll window in GUI mode. This is what you want to select. There are 2 choices for each workgroup. One that does a new install and one that does a upgrade. The "RedHat Upgrade" selection will give you a "RedHat" upgrade which only upgrades existing packages to new versions if new versions exist. It gives NO new packages other than ones it deems necessary. It is NOT what you want. 5a*. Fermi Kerberos rpm depends on the Fermi Kerberos ups/upd product. It has not been ported to 7.x yet. The existing Fermi Kerberos rpm will with the the exception that it will not be able to enable incoming services. This is because 6.x used inetd and 7x uses xinetd.conf. You can install these manually if needed. The 6.1 kerberos rpms are in /contrib/kerberos/. If you have questions about kerberos on Fermi Linux please send mail to kerberos-users@fnal.gov . 6*. afs is in /RedHat/RPMS/. This should work with both smp and non smp kernels. This is the openafs version vs the Transarc product. We use what works. The following workgroups will get afs installed by default just as in 6.1.x . Astro FnaluInteractive ODS OSS Theory CMSdesktop CMSserver CMSfarm 7*. New RPMS have been created to "fix" things. zz_libg2c.a_change-2.0-1.i386.rpm Fixes the lack of a sym link to /usr/lib/libg2c.a This was a problem with the prior version of g77 too. All g77 installs get zz_libg2c.a_change-2.0-1.i386.rpm. zz_tex_tweaks-1.0-1.i386.rpm Changes the paper default size to US. Astro Theory CPD FermiStandAlone OSS zz_emacs_link-1.0-1.i386.rpm This lets xemacs be used in place of emacs. zz_airo350_conf-1.1-1.i386.rpm Modifies the config file for the airo350 so that it works. Modification from Cisco web page. Not installed by default. If you want it you have to install it. zz_a2ps_stdout-1.0-1.i386.rpm This will make a2ps default to stdout instead of the printer. Installed by default for Astro Theory CPD FermiStandAlone OSS zz_no_colorls-1.0-1.noarch.rpm This will change the default ls behavior to no color Only in CDF workgroups by default. If other want it just ask. zz_lang_collate-1.0-2.noarch.rpm This will configure the LC_COLLATE in /etc/sysconfig/i18n to "C" which is what the default was on Fermi Linux 6.1.x. Installed by default in CPD, OSS, FermiStandAlone. upsupdbootstrap-2.2-2.i386.rpm and one of upsupdbootstrap-local-2.2-2.i386.rpm upsupdbootstrap-generic-2.2-2.i386.rpm Fermi Ups/Upd bootstrap. openafs-fermi Fermi version of Openafs client. 8*. RPMS changed. serialconsole-1.0-3.noarch.rpm Took out the "file" entry for /dev/console. This was making a upgrade think that it needed to install it for everyone. In most cases this is ok as the rpm makes a console out of both the serial port and the first virtual tty. But some systems had problems with this. If we still need to define /dev/console we need to do so via the shell script. 9*. New RPMS which were obtained from other places. acroread-4.05-6.i386.rpm acroread-plugin-4.05-6.i386.rpm From RedHat powertools 7.0 10*. RPMS moved These have been moved to /updates/removed/ because they were being installed automatically on all updates. These are quite large and increase the size of a upgrade by about 140MB. kde-i18n-Brazil-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Catalan-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Chinese-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Czech-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Danish-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Dutch-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Esperanto-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Estonian-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Finnish-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-French-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-German-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Greek-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Hungarian-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Icelandic-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Italian-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Japanese-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Korean-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Lithuanian-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Norwegian-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Norwegian-Nynorsk-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Polish-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Portuguese-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Romanian-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Russian-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Serbian-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Slovak-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Slovenian-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Spanish-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Swedish-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Turkish-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm kde-i18n-Ukrainian-2.1.1-2.noarch.rpm 11a. Documentation Documentation has been added in /contrib/dell.laptops/ for information on dell laptops. The Cisco aironet 350 does not work out of the box. You need to install the zz_airo350_conf-1.1-1.i386.rpm rpm to fix the config file. The aironet 4800 and 340 do work out of the box and do NOT need this rpm. ________________________________________________________________________ Older info which is still relavant. 1. Adaptec scsi support is still poor, just not as bad as it was. If your install hangs and you have adaptec scsi then reboot with "linux apic" at the install boot prompt. This has helped at least one user. 2. Install turns on IDE DMA by default. This can cause some cdroms/disks to be "sad". So if you have problems during the install in particular with it "hanging" the suggested fix is to turn dma off during the install. This can be done by at the install prompt typing linux ide=nodma or text ide=nodma 3. inetd and /etc/inetd.conf have been replaced with xinetd and /etc/ xinetd.d/ . Similar features but done differently. 4. Other RedHat features are still there. 5. The current kernel is still 2.4.3 . The test kernel in /contrib/kernel has been removed as it is too old. New test version soon. 6*. You are able to install only via nfs. Ftp installs do not work at this time. Still working on this. Should be back at a later date. 7*. The default for firewall is off still. You can still select what you want. 8. Both text and graphical installs should work as long as they work with the default RedHat install. The reason for the "if" is that the normal RedHat installer will switch to "text" mode if it cannot do graphical mode. Note that ftp installs only work in text mode. 9.* Cdrom installs are now available. Will post images to ftp:/linux1.fnal.gov/linux/7xtest/iso/ Please Go forth and test and report back. -connie & Troy & Marc & Kevin __________________________________________________________________________ Errata from RedHat /RedHat/RPMS/ /updates/RedHat/RPMS/ This release krb5-workstation-1.2.2-12.i386.rpm krb5-libs-1.2.2-12.i386.rpm krb5-server-1.2.2-12.i386.rpm krb5-devel-1.2.2-12.i386.rpm openldap-2.0.11-8.i386.rpm openldap-clients-2.0.11-8.i386.rpm openldap-devel-2.0.11-8.i386.rpm openldap-servers-2.0.11-8.i386.rpm openldap12-1.2.12-3.i386.rpm telnet-0.17-18.i386.rpm telnet-server-0.17-18.i386.rpm samba-swat-2.0.10-2.i386.rpm samba-common-2.0.10-2.i386.rpm samba-client-2.0.10-2.i386.rpm samba-2.0.10-2.i386.rpm wireless-tools-21-1.i386.rpm before elm-2.5.5-1.i386.rpm man-1.5i2-0.7x.i386.rpm nss_ldap-149-4.i386.rpm procmail-3.21-0.71.i386.rpm xinetd-2.3.0-1.71.i386.rpm util-linux-2.10s-13.7.i386.rpm xloadimage-4.1-20.i386.rpm imap-2000c-10.i386.rpm imap-devel-2000c-10.i386.rpm openssl095a-0.9.5a-9.i386.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.6-9.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.6-9.i386.rpm openssl-python-0.9.6-9.i386.rpm openssl-perl-0.9.6-9.i386.rpm gcc-2.96-85.i386.rpm gcc-objc-2.96-85.i386.rpm gcc-java-2.96-85.i386.rpm gcc-chill-2.96-85.i386.rpm gcc-c++-2.96-85.i386.rpm gcc-g77-2.96-85.i386.rpm cpp-2.96-85.i386.rpm libstdc++-devel-2.96-85.i386.rpm libstdc++-2.96-85.i386.rpm XFree86-Mach32-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-FBDev-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-AGX-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-8514-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-3DLabs-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-S3V-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-S3-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-P9000-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-Mach8-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm XFree86-W32-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm kernel-2.4.3-12.i386.rpm kernel-2.4.3-12.i586.rpm kernel-2.4.3-12.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.3-12.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.3-12.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.4.3-12.i386.rpm kernel-BOOT-2.4.3-12.i386.rpm kernel-headers-2.4.3-12.i386.rpm kernel-enterprise-2.4.3-12.i686.rpm kernel-source-2.4.3-12.i386.rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.24-2.i386.rpm devfsd-2.4.3-12.i386.rpm samba-swat-2.0.10-2.i386.rpm samba-common-2.0.10-2.i386.rpm samba-client-2.0.10-2.i386.rpm samba-2.0.10-2.i386.rpm wireless-tools-21-1.i386.rpm SysVinit-2.78-17.i386.rpm mgetty-1.1.25-5.i386.rpm mgetty-sendfax-1.1.25-5.i386.rpm mgetty-viewfax-1.1.25-5.i386.rpm mgetty-voice-1.1.25-5.i386.rpm netscape-common-4.77-1.i386.rpm netscape-communicator-4.77-1.i386.rpm netscape-navigator-4.77-1.i386.rpm rhn_register-1.3.2-1.noarch.rpm rhn_register-gnome-1.3.2-1.noarch.rpm up2date-gnome-2.5.4-1.i386.rpm up2date-2.5.4-1.i386.rpm gftp-2.0.8-1.i386.rpm kdelibs-2.1.2-1.i386.rpm kdelibs-sound-2.1.2-1.i386.rpm kdelibs-devel-2.1.2-1.i386.rpm kdelibs-sound-devel-2.1.2-1.i386.rpm losetup-2.11b-3.i386.rpm arts-2.1.2-1.i386.rpm mount-2.11b-3.i386.rpm Xconfigurator-4.9.29-1.i386.rpm mouseconfig-4.22-1.i386.rpm minicom-1.83.1-8.i386.rpm samba-swat-2.0.8-1.7.1.i386.rpm samba-common-2.0.8-1.7.1.i386.rpm samba-client-2.0.8-1.7.1.i386.rpm samba-2.0.8-1.7.1.i386.rpm krb5-devel-1.2.2-5.i386.rpm krb5-libs-1.2.2-5.i386.rpm krb5-server-1.2.2-5.i386.rpm krb5-workstation-1.2.2-5.i386.rpm docbook-style-dsssl-1.64-2.noarch.rpm ypbind-1.7-8.i386.rpm gnupg-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm xinetd-2.1.8.9pre15-2.i386.rpm LPRng-3.7.4-23.i386.rpm