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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 9 Dec 1995 13:50:20 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4ac46s$hfh@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49teb7$ac@dyson.iquest.net> <49vk97$9es@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <mkl.818175063@dagobert.rob.cs.tu-bs.de> <4ab2i4$pv@pell.pell.chi.il.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29818 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10105 comp.unix.advocacy:11960 comp.unix.misc:19958 orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) writes: >>tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes: >>>Eg how do I mount a floppy disk, or a CD-ROM? >>>How do I access DOS partitions? > Hmm. I don't know about you, but I have quite a bit of luck >doing 'mkfs', 'fsck', and 'mount' -- perhaps the distribution you >were using didn't provide those, but they do exist on some of the >better behaved distributions out there, and have existed for quite >a long time. If you took the trouble to read the postings you are replying to, you will see that I explicitly stated that I was _not_ looking for an answer to these questions. I was simply stating that it is not true that you can find the answers in any book on BSD, as some had asserted. My concern was with the documentation for FreeBSD. Some people answered this by claiming that no documentation was necessary, since FreeBSD is identical to any other BSD. Others stated that in fact FreeBSD documentation (by which I mean documentation provided with FreeBSD) has improved immensely, and my comments were out of date. I am entirely in sympathy with the latter approach, and if it proves to be true I for one would be very happy. (I haven't yet had an opportunity to check it out.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland