[2902] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Removing Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis A. Isgur)
Tue Aug 14 17:09:57 2001
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To: zacheiss@MIT.EDU
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, bmurphy@MIT.EDU, larugsi@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:09:53 -0400
From: "Louis A. Isgur" <larugsi@MIT.EDU>
Hi Gary,
What I think Brian's concern is (Brian correct me if I am wrong), is
that when a client is running an Athenized workstation, and no longer wants
to run Athena, and would prefer another O.S. instead, Brian would like
the Athena O.S. scrubbed/formatted/wiped clean etc.. so the client can go
ahead and install whats needed. If other Operating Systems totaly wipe out the
previous Operating System, then this is not an issue.
What do you suggest??
Thanks,
--Lou
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To: "Louis A. Isgur" <larugsi@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, bmurphy@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Removing Athena from a hard drive:
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:07:30 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:59:36 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Hi Lou,
We're a little unsure what you're asking for here; If you're
installing a new OS on the machine, the installation process should, in
general, at least have an option for removing everything on the disk.
There might be some cases, such as installing non-Athena Linux over top
of a Linux-Athena installation, where the installer will ask if it
should preserve the current contents of the disk, but you should be able
to tell it "no".
Is there a specific situation you're thinking of that can help
us understand more of what you're asking for?
Garry
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