[K12OSN] Red Hat 7.3 beta & K12LTSP 2.1.0 beta

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

This weekend Red Hat put out a beta test for Red Hat 7.3. I have a local
mirror available here:

  ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/distributions/ISO/beta/skipjack/

but you're much more likely to find a faster site from the official Red Hat
mirror list:

  http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html

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For your testing pleasure, I have uploaded a beta verison of K12LTSP 2.1.0
built ontop of the Red Hat 7.3 beta:

  ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/distributions/ISO/beta/K12LTSP-2.1.0-BETA/


Needless to say, this is for *TESTING* *ONLY*. There are huge, nasty bugs
so big that it'll eat your drive in one gulp and belch loudly. This is for
development and testing only. As the installer notes, "if it breaks you get
to keep all 1445 pieces".

That said, the K12LTSP-2.0.2 mods ported quite easily... there are only
three bugs that I've noted in my minimal testing:

  1) You MUST run the following command immediately after installation:

      /opt/ltsp/templates/k12linux/K12Linux-LTSP-initialize

     How /etc/hosts is created is different, the command above will clean up
     the mess. I'll fix it shortly

  2) Although I built the installer packages to include the extra icons I add,
     I forgot to actually add them in this build. Some options will be missing
     their icons. This is already fixed, but I'm out of blank CDRs, so it'll
     have to wait 'till tomorrow to test ;-)

  3) The new "check install media" option does not work. I just glanced at 
     this one, I think they're embeding the MD5SUM of the disc into the
     volume label of the CDR. Should be pretty easy to figure out once I have
     the time to sit down and muck with it a bit.

Good luck. If you're foolish enough to actualy try running this thing, please
send bug reports to "eharrison mesd k12 or us" ---- DO NOT SEND A BUG REPORTS
TO REDHAT! ---- this thing is my mess!   <if you do find a bug that should be
reported to Red Hat, please verify the bug with the Skipjack BETA discs issued
by Red Hat before submitting the bug report>

-Eric