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,
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> your proposal sounds very reasonable to me. Minliang?
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> Gabriella
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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
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>>> Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor
>>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>> 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 26-443
>>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>>> (617) 258-0541
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>>> 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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