Springdale Linux (SDL)

(formerly PUIAS)

Custom Red Hat® Distribution and Mirror. A project of members of the computing staff of ​Princeton University and the ​Institute for Advanced Study.

Getting Started

To install Springdale you have a few options. You can download a DVD image, download a boot.iso boot image or download PXE boot images.
There are currently 2 versions supported, 6 is the latest and 5 the oldest. Both are available in 32 and 64 bit versions.

Download

DVD

	i386	x86_64
6.3	​puias-6.3-i386-DVD.iso ​puias-6.3-i386-DVD-2.iso	​puias-6.3-x86_64-DVD.iso ​puias-6.3-x86_64-DVD-2.iso
5.8

Boot/PXE

	i386	x86_64
6.3	​boot.iso ​pxeboot	​boot.iso ​pxeboot
5.8	​boot.iso ​pxeboot	​boot.iso ​pxeboot

Repositories

If you are only looking to install some rpms, you can download our repositories on your system.

• YUM Repositories for puias 6
• YUM Repositories for puias 5
• YUM Repositories for PUIAS 2
• YUM Repositories for PUIAS 1

Data Directory

All the files for springdale are held in a /data directory which is available from the following locations. If you wish to make your own local mirror, you can rsync using the below rsync servers.

• ​Princeton
• ​IAS
• NFS on Princeton University network: lowrie.princeton.edu:/vol/puias
• rsync on Princeton University or IAS networks: rsync://puias.princeton.edu::DATA
• rsync outside Princeton or IAS networks: rsync://puias.princeton.edu::PUIAS.WORLD

Current Release springdale 6.3 (pisa)

Introduction

This project was started long before ​CentOS or other projects were available. Even if you do not install the core distribution, the Addons, Computational and Unsupported repositories may be of use to you. The Addons repository contains additional packages not included in a stock Red Hat distribution. The Computational repository also includes additional packages, however, these packages are specific to scientific computing. The Unsupported repository is a place where one time packages are put, they are unsupported and may change frequently.

FAQ

Documentation

• Building RPMs
• Princeton LDAP authentication on PUIAS 5
• Princeton LDAP authentication on PUIAS 6
• FacterTweaks
• PuppetTweaks
• Setting up a RubyCAS Server (LDAP+Mysql+Passenger+mod_auth_cas)

• Directory Structure

Mailing Lists

• Mailing Lists

Hosted by ​Google Groups.

Mirrors

• ​http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/puias/ Ireland National Education Network (HTTP, FTP, RSYNC, IPv6)
• ​http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/puias.princeton.edu/ Belgium National Education Network (HTTP, FTP, IPv6)
• ​http://be.mirror.eurid.eu/puias/ .EU ccTLD Provider (HTTP, FTP)
• ​http://nl.mirror.eurid.eu/puias/ .EU ccTLD Provider (HTTP, FTP, RSYNC)
• ​http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/PUIAS/ Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (HTTP, FTP, RSYNC, IPv6)
• ​http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/puias/ Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (HTTP, FTP, RSYNC)

disclaimer

Why the name change?

The project has been held back by being too tied to Princeton and IAS, so we're changing the name.