Problem: After selecting the NFS server, nothing happens for a long
time.

A delay of up to 10 minutes is normal; the installer must download the
program and graphics for the next stage of the install, at this point.
If you can still see the blue and red screen, don't worry about it.

If you have a black screen, that means that the graphical installer has
tried to start up, and maybe failed.  First, hold down alt and control,
and hit F1 (you should see some text), then F7.  If you still don't see
anything, you need to start over, this time using text mode.  To do
this, at the boot: prompt on the first screen, type "text".


Problem: I can't get my monitor configuration to work.

If you want to leave this for later, you can.  When the system boots
up, you'll need to hit control-p to get a login prompt, at which point
you can login as root, and try again.


Problem: The install is finished, and I'm seeing a lot of afs
timeouts.

You probably don't have your network working.  You should reboot into
single user mode.  (To do this, reboot the machine, and at the lilo:
prompt, type "linux single".  You will get a root shell on the machine
without it trying to start up any services.)  At that point, if you can
figure out what's wrong and fix it, you can test that the network's
working by running '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start', or you can have
the machine boot up normally by running 'exit'.


Problem: I want to use DHCP to get my address.

If you've already registered from that computer for DHCP, you can
configure it by setting ADDR=dhcp in your /etc/athena/rc.conf and
rebooting.

If you'd like to register for DHCP, follow the instructions on
http://web.mit.edu/is/help/dhcp


Problem: It says that the version I'm running is still 8.4.0 (or
something else old).

For your workstation to take updates, it must have linux hesiod
information, telling it where to get its update from.  You can get this
for free, either by sending mail to register_ws@mit.edu, with the hostname
of the machine or by filling in the web form at <TBD>.  It may take a
few days to process your request, and it will take overnight to take
effect.  To see if you've currently got hesiod information, run
'hesinfo <hostname> cluster'.

Once you've got hesiod, your workstation should notice and schedule an
update next time that nobody is logged into it.  It may schedule an
update for several hours in advance, so leaving it idle overnight will
ensure that it at least tries to update.

If it's inconvenient to wait for it, login as
root, and run update_ws, to try to update immediately.

To check what version you're running, look at the last line of
/etc/athena/version.  Check /var/athena/update.log to see
if the last update completed successfully.



Problem: I'd like to be able to use my machine remotely.

You should run 'mkserv remote' as root, and follow the instructions.
There's more on this in the "Private Athena Workstation: Owner's Guide"
which you can get at http://web.mit.edu/olh/Private