########## PROPOSAL for machine installation V0.01 ################## ### deadline Thu 10/10/02 19:00 (decisions a matter of taste, IMHO) ### - Deb 3.0r0 or RedHat ? I would like to install Debian 3.0r0, with the 2.4.18bf kernel flavour. This includes software like SnapPea which is useful for cosmic topology, and also gives the users (cosmologists) maximum control and freedom to manage the software.

I don't imagine we could get easy consensus on Deb vs Redhat vs Mandrake (or other) ;), but please make any comments you feel like anyway.

- superusers - I think that Andrzej M and I should be superusers, but at least one or two other people than me should also be su, e.g. a student or two. This is really a more serious and longer term decision, but if anyone wants to help install, now is the time to speak up, since I'm eager to get started... :)

- name of machine (silk, sahni, liddle, peebles, novikov, levin?) In the tradition of TCfA, I guess we should pick the name of a famous astronomer. So for this machine, it should be a famous cosmologist. IMHO, it would be fun to name it after a *living* cosmologist, and preferably someone who's also a cool dude ;).

Since this is a question of taste, I'm not sure how we should decide, and probably if I make an authoritarian decision, it would be reasonable since it won't really affect other people that much.

But suggestions welcome :).

At the moment the names I've thought of include: * liddle * silk * peebles * sahni * levin * padmanabhan * novikov

- partition suggestions (there are 2 disks each of 60Gb) / 185MB /boot 15MB /tmp 150MB /home 650MB /usr 3GB /usr/local 2GB /var 1GB /var/mail 1GB /home2 2GB /scratch1 10GB /scratch[2-9] 10GB -> 80Gb /scratch10 20GB

My idea of 650MB /home is that CDROM backups should be relatively easy.

Any good ideas for partition?

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