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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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 1:59 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 >>> >