Hi Ray,
your proposal sounds very reasonable to me. Minliang?
Gabriella
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Gabriella Sciolla
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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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>> 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
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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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