[2904] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Removing Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Murphy)
Wed Aug 15 08:33:44 2001
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:31:27 -0400
To: "Louis A. Isgur" <larugsi@mit.edu>, zacheiss@mit.edu
From: Brian Murphy <bmurphy@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, larugsi@mit.edu
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Gary/Lou,
What Lou is saying is basically correct except for the part about another
OS wiping out Athena. Even is this happens we still have a responsibility
to make sure Athena is off the disk. Regardless of what they do afterwards
we just want the disk to be clean when we walk away. If formatting the disk
is the simplest way to do so that should suffice...Brian
At 05:09 PM 8/14/2001 -0400, Louis A. Isgur wrote:
>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>
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>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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