Hi Minliang,
Ok, sounds good. We'll wait until I hear from you before reformatting the
disk on mitbbr00.
Thanks,
--Ray
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Minliang Zhao wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Can we do it next week, so that I will have enough time during this weekend
> to back up. thanks
>
> Minliang
>
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Gabriella Sciolla wrote:
>
>> Hi Ray,
>>
>> your proposal sounds very reasonable to me. Minliang?
>>
>> Gabriella
>>
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>> Gabriella Sciolla
>> Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 26-443
>> Cambridge, MA 02139
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>> On Jun 6, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Ray F. Cowan wrote:
>>> Hi Gabriella,
>>>
>>> Ok, we certainly don't want to lose that. But could her data be copied to
>>> another location to allow the upgrade to proceed? Otherwise Ray Lo has
>>> to reboot it manually to apply the network work-around each time the
>>> machine is rebooted or loses power.
>>>
>>> It might be good to have one or more backups of her data anyway just on
>>> general principles.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> --Ray
>>>
>>> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Gabriella Sciolla wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ray,
>>>> I think the reason why Minlinag wanted to access the machine was
>>>> to run on the data locally available there. This is valuable until
>>>> her paper is accepted for publication and she defends her thesis.
>>>> Gabriella
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Gabriella Sciolla
>>>> Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor
>>>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>>> 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 26-443
>>>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>>>> (617) 258-0541
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 6, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Ray F. Cowan wrote:
>>>>> Hi Gabriella, Minliang, Shawn, Steve,
>>>>> (and anyone with date on mitbbr00 at SLAC):
>>>>> Ray Lo of BaBar desktop support has requested permission to re-partition
>>>>> and reformat the hard disk on mitbbr00.slac.stanford.edu. This needs
>>>>> to be done to install a new version of RedHat linux (the machine
>>>>> currently
>>>>> has an older Scientific Linux version installed, but SLAC no longer
>>>>> supports SL installations).
>>>>> IMPORTANT: this will destroy all data currently on the disk. I would
>>>>> like
>>>>> to confirm that this is ok with each of you. Please let me know.
>>>>> The reason for the upgrade is to fix a recurring network configuration
>>>>> problem that prevents ssh access to mitbbr00.
>>>>> There are also some windows partitions on the machine. Does anyone know
>>>>> if there is anything important on them? The partition list is below.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> --Ray
>>>>> Disk /dev/sda: 293.5 GB, 293597741056 bytes
>>>>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 35694 cylinders
>>>>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>>>>
>>>>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>>>>> /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
>>>>> /dev/sda2 6 332 2626627+ b Win95 FAT32
>>>>> /dev/sda3 * 333 345 104422+ 83 Linux
>>>>> /dev/sda4 346 35694 283940842+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
>>>>> /dev/sda5 346 35440 281900556 83 Linux
>>>>> /dev/sda6 35441 35694 2040223+ 82 Linux swap
>>>>
>>
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