[3628] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Can we make Athena install NOT default to wiping the disk?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Dec 16 15:15:24 2002
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Brian Murphy <bmurphy@mit.edu>
Cc: cluster-services@mit.edu, hardserv@mit.edu, owls@mit.edu,
release-team@mit.edu
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Date: 16 Dec 2002 15:15:21 -0500
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Brian:
With your blessing in hand, I'm adding owls, and release-team to this
note so that everyone comes up to speed.
The plan is that when we roll out the new Athena Linux install media
required to support the new IBM hardware, that the default would change
from custom install "N" to custom install "Y".
We'll let you know when to, "Take new install diskies and throw the old
ones away."
I expect that announcement will be in a couple weeks. I expect we'll
announce it to f_l, hardserv, cfyi, and release-announce then. (Did I
forget any lists for that announcement?)
-wdc
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 08:32, Brian Murphy wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> That certainly makes sense to me. When will it go into efect?...Brian
>
> At 06:13 PM 12/13/2002 -0500, Bill Cattey wrote:
> >Brian:
> >
> >With the larger number of people using the Athena install floppy and CD,
> >I'd like permission from you and your team to make a tiny change to how
> >the Athena install works.
> >
> >Currently, the first important question a person doing the install gets
> >is:
> >
> > Custom Install? [Ny]
> >
> >and if you hit return, the Athena install wipes the disk and does a
> >cluster install of Athena.
> >
> >I would like to change that to:
> >
> > Custom Install? [nY]
> >
> >so that the default behavior is NOT to wipe the disk. The effect on
> >your team is just that they would have to remember to type "y" before
> >hitting the return key. (If they forget to type "y", then they just
> >choose "Cluster Install" from the list of custom installs, and keep
> >going.)
> >
> >The value of this is fewer customers wiping their disk as a consequence
> >of getting a little ahead of themselves.
> >
> >May I have your OK to make this change?
> >
> >-wdc
>
>
