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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> 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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