[AG-TECH] New Node Install

[Bob Olson]

you can install a stock 7.3 redhat, and install the RPMs from

http://ag-tech.mcs.anl.gov/reldb/repository/releases/agib/snapshots/snap-006/

--bob

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Jacob Jenkins wrote:

> Howdy, all. 
> 
> Our AG Node computers arrived yesterday. Eager to get started with the 
> install, I stayed late to get the 1.0 release of the AG software on the video 
> and audio capture machines. However, the install process failed. The error is 
> of unknown origin, but consists of script garbage flying across the install 
> screen followed by an "Unexpected Error" message. The installer then 
> terminates.
> 
> My initial assumption is that the 6.2 version of RedHat that comes on the AG 
> CD is just too old to properly work on our machines. Without going into too 
> much (if there is such a thing) detail, our machines are:
> Dual Processing 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 Xeons with Hyper-threading
> Intel i860 chipsets on Supermicro P4DC6+ Motherboards
> 259 MB RDRAM.
> The video cards on the audio and video machines are different and the error is 
> the same so I think they can be ruled out as a problem.
> 
> Has anyone installed the AG release of Linux on machines similar to ours?
> Has anyone totally forgone installing the AG release altogether and simply 
> used a later release of RedHat or another version of Linux?
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> -- 
> Jacob Jenkins
> Supercomputer Student User Consultant
> Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research
> (662)915-7417
> 
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