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Removing All Software

To remove all installed software from the target system, you must perform a miniroot installation; you cannot remove all software during a live install, since the miniroot is needed to supply the functions that sustain the system until critical software is replaced. Because removing all software is not desirable under most circumstances, Inst behavior is overridden to perform this procedure.

Follow these instructions to remove all installed software.

  1. Override Inst rules:

    Inst> set rulesoverride on

  2. Select installed subsystems for removal:

    Inst> remove I

  3. Start the removal:

    Inst> go

When you remove subsystems with remove, any configuration files that have been modified are not removed. This preserves any local information that might have been added. To list configuration files, enter the showfiles -cCH command from an IRIX shell.

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