[K12OSN] Developers only: FC2 test 2 + k12ltsp ISOs

[Eric Harrison]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Chris Thomas wrote:

>I just finished downloading FC2 test 2 and was
>wondering is there a rsync link to your new k12ltsp?

Sorry, not at the moment.

-Eric

>--- Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us>
>wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I'm down to just one massive show-stopper bug ;-)
>> 
>> There are still a huge number of
>> slightly-less-than-show-stopping
>> bugs... but I think it is close enough to at least
>> hope it is
>> pre-alpha quality!
>> 
>> It slices, it dices, and for a limited-time-only, it
>> also may have
>> a "feature" or two that will whip your data into a
>> creamy froth!
>> 
>> In other words, please immediately stop reading this
>> email,
>> hit the delete key, and pretend you never saw this.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For those of you who ignored my advice and are still
>> reading....
>> here's a set of FC2t2/K12LTSP ISOs that have at
>> least a 20% chance
>> of not completely destroying your life and/or
>> computer:
>> 
>>   
>>
>ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/distributions/ISO/fedora/
>> 
>> 
>> This is FC2t2 + most of the Rawhide updates that
>> were released
>> this morning.
>> 
>> 
>> The big trick is to make sure you either DISABLE
>> SELinux, or 
>> at least put it in WARN mode. You'll see this at the
>> bottom
>> of the Firewall section of the installer. If SELinux
>> is in
>> enforce mode, DHCP probably won't startup. (I'll
>> file a bug as
>> soon as I have the time to make sure that this is
>> not my own
>> fault....). Appending "enforcing=0" to the boot
>> parameters may
>> also do the trick.
>> 
>> Other than that, it's been know to work at least
>> once ;-)
>> 
>> Yum & apt need to be reconfigured. A couple packages
>> don't work
>> (I can't remember which off the top of my head).
>> Various other
>> things are either broken or work in such odd ways
>> that they might
>> as well be broken. In other words, it performs
>> pretty much as
>> you'd expect for pre-beta software. I'm using it on
>> two of the
>> three systems I use all-day-long and am happy with
>> the results
>> so far.
>> 
>> 
>> -Eric
>>