diff --git a/openbis/dist/admin/boot.sh b/openbis/dist/admin/boot.sh
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index 5de9e22b05b976dca02cdceac799a99ce519b0d3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/openbis/dist/admin/boot.sh
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@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Fetches "openBIS for HCS" administration scripts from source repository to the bin folder in current directory.
-
-# setup scripts for the generic openBIS version 
-SVN_DIR_GENERIC=svnsis.ethz.ch/repos/cisd/openbis/trunk/dist/admin
-
-#setup scripts for screening version
-SVN_DIR_SCREENING=svnsis.ethz.ch/repos/cisd/screening/trunk/dist/admin
-
-
-BASE=`dirname "$0"`
-if [ ${BASE#/} == ${BASE} ]; then
-    BASE="`pwd`/${BASE}"
-fi
-
-SERVERS_DIR=$BASE/servers
-
-if [ ! -d "$SERVERS_DIR" ]; then
-    echo "$SERVERS_DIR does not exist. Aborting ..."
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-SCREENING_ZIPS_EXIST=`find "$SERVERS_DIR" -name "*server-screening*.zip"`
-GENERIC_ZIPS_EXIST=`find "$SERVERS_DIR" -name "*server-*.zip"`
-
-if [ -n "$SCREENING_ZIPS_EXIST" ]; then
-    
-    echo "Downloading admin scripts for openBIS screening..." 
-    SVN_DIR=$SVN_DIR_SCREENING
-    
-elif [ -n "$GENERIC_ZIPS_EXIST"  ]; then 
-    
-    echo "Downloading admin scripts for generic openBIS installation..." 
-    SVN_DIR=$SVN_DIR_GENERIC
-     
-else
-    echo "Could not detect openBIS archives in $SERVERS_DIR. Please, download openBIS and datastore server archives and try again..."
-    exit 2 
-fi
-
-
-mkdir bin
-cd bin
-
-wget $SVN_DIR/svn-update.sh
-wget $SVN_DIR/env
-
-
-source ./svn-update.sh
-
-cd ..
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diff --git a/openbis/dist/admin/svn-update.sh b/openbis/dist/admin/svn-update.sh
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index 4ddc7f3884309ecd5fff8cb771feaf31eff772ce..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/openbis/dist/admin/svn-update.sh
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@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Updates all the admin scripts to the version found in SVN.
-
-# screening-specific
-SVN=svnsis.ethz.ch/repos/cisd/openbis/trunk/dist/admin
-
-# set directory
-BASE=`dirname "$0"`
-if [ ${BASE#/} == ${BASE} ]; then
-    BASE="`pwd`/${BASE}"
-fi
-
-if [ -z $OPENBIS_HOME ]; then
-    OPENBIS_HOME=${BASE}
-fi
-
-# checking for wget
-WGET_HOME=`which wget`
-
-# download the scripts
-$WGET_HOME -nH --cut-dirs=6 --directory-prefix $OPENBIS_HOME --no-verbose -r -l2 -A.{sh,sql} http://$SVN/
-
-# set permissions
-find $OPENBIS_HOME -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod 700 {} \;
-
diff --git a/screening/dist/admin/boot.sh b/screening/dist/admin/boot.sh
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index f252a31223e08c9952a0fd99ab7677b9459dd360..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/screening/dist/admin/boot.sh
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@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Fetches "openBIS for HCS" administration scripts from source repository to the bin folder in current directory.
-
-SVN_DIR=svnsis.ethz.ch/repos/cisd/screening/trunk/dist/admin
-
-mkdir bin
-cd bin
-wget $SVN_DIR/svn-update.sh
-wget $SVN_DIR/env
-. ./svn-update.sh
-cd ..
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diff --git a/screening/dist/admin/svn-update.sh b/screening/dist/admin/svn-update.sh
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index 01c416e9038705bebdec1f0baa9966ef5a463b30..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/screening/dist/admin/svn-update.sh
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@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Updates all the admin scripts to the version found in SVN.
-
-# screening-specific
-SVN=svnsis.ethz.ch/repos/cisd/screening/trunk/dist/admin
-SVN2=svnsis.ethz.ch/repos/cisd/installation/trunk/resource/installer/bin/backup-databases.sh
-
-# set directory
-BASE=`dirname "$0"`
-if [ ${BASE#/} == ${BASE} ]; then
-    BASE="`pwd`/${BASE}"
-fi
-
-if [ -z $OPENBIS_HOME ]; then
-    OPENBIS_HOME=${BASE}
-fi
-
-# checking for wget
-WGET_HOME=`which wget`
-
-# download the scripts
-$WGET_HOME -nH --cut-dirs=6 --directory-prefix $OPENBIS_HOME --no-verbose -r -l2 -A.{sh,sql} http://$SVN/
-$WGET_HOME -nH  --directory-prefix $OPENBIS_HOME --no-verbose http://$SVN2
-
-# set permissions
-find $OPENBIS_HOME -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod 700 {} \;
-