[3643] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Outreach to multi-partition Sun users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Dec 19 23:00:56 2002
Message-Id: <200212200356.WAA14680@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: "Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@MIT.EDU>
cc: wdc@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:59:32 EST."
<200212061459.JAA11710@the-rim.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:56:19 -0500
> Bill,
>
> Your note looks good, but why not tell the machine owners how to
> reinstall themselves? I ask for two reasons - save customer visits;
> and, selfishly, one machine on the list is mine, I would like to
> reinstall and get the list down to 77.
drop to the 'ok' prompt and type:
boot net:18.179.0.20,cnboot,<insert your IP address here>
Then answer the questions you are asked.
Remember this will destroy all of the local data and configureation on
your machine, including the fact that it is set up for remote access.
> Instructions are not immediately obvious on web search of MIT or IS.
> One initiates it with a single command, no? What would be the
> downside of asking the machine contact to do it?
Mostly the chance that they will do something wrong and hurt themselves.
Jonathon
