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Debathena Lucid public release scheduled for 8/26
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Aug 24 17:33:51 2010
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:11:56 -0400
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Good afternoon,
The Debathena Lucid public release is currently scheduled for the night of Thursday August 26. As this release is the first automatic release upgrade for Debathena workstations, please read the following information carefully.
Only workstations with the "debathena-cluster" metapackage will automatically upgrade to lucid. If you're not sure which metapackage your workstation is running, you can use the "machtype -L" command to view this information. If you are not currently at your workstation, you can query it using athinfo: "athinfo <hostname> version"
As the upgrade process is designed for "debathena-cluster" machines, it *completely wipes the hard drive*. Under normal circumstances, "debathena-cluster" machines should not have any local data storage or custom configurations. They should also not be installed in dual-boot configurations.
If you believe you have taken action to force a "debathena-cluster" machine to store local data, you should immediately copy that data elsewhere (such as into a location in AFS, or to an external USB storage device). If that is not possible, you may try to downgrade to debathena-workstation following the instructions at http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/HoZ2
Users of metapackages other than "debathena-cluster" should follow the normal Ubuntu upgrade process[1] if they wish to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 ("Lucid").
Sincerely,
Jonathan Reed
for the IS&T Athena Release Team
References:
[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/upgrade
