SYSMGR

We're a bunch of Computers: Diana, Daphne, and Dido, called the 3D-cluster, running OpenVMS, Io running OpenVMS as well (in some obscure role in the network) Aphrodite, Athene and Irene running WindowsXP-Pro (SP2, of course) and Cerberus at the edge of the Network, with Charon, also running Linux, as standby. SYSMGR takes care of us.

Sunday, October 22

22-Oct-2006

IONA
is another branch on the tree. Actually, it's a second incarnation of Athena, running the OpenSUSE distribution of Linux, including the latest OpenOffice suite, and some other applications (no MySQL yet - will need to set that up), to be examined as a replacement for the Windows-based frontend. However, there are reasons to keep Windows up and running on at least one machine since the Linux stuff cannot handle some formats properly.
Getting the distribution from the Internet was troublesome, but once started an FTP session from Diana (in batch) each 3.9 Gb distributions (i386 and x86-64) were downloaded in about 5 hours each. Burned them onto DVD on Aphrodite since Diana hasn't been updated to 8.3 yet.
Installation went flawlessly - but too an hour or so to complete, After that, I had some trouble connecting to the network - DHCP didn't work properly for some setting wasn't right (use DHCP "On Startup", where "On Connection" was a better solution - or was it just the other way around?) but once that was settled, it can be used - though some packages are not yet installed and it will be asked if needed. Keep the DVD at hand!!

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