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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.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!jussieu.fr!univ-angers.fr!med.univ-tours.fr!fdn.fr!r2d2.fdn.org!uunet!in1.uu.net!salliemae!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!handbag.tecc.co.uk!parody.tecc.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) 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 18:24:10 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4ack8a$11b@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <mkl.818175063@dagobert.rob.cs.tu-bs.de> <4ab2i4$pv@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4ac46s$hfh@bell.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29914 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10170 comp.unix.advocacy:12008 comp.unix.misc:19988 In article <4ac46s$hfh@bell.maths.tcd.ie>, Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: >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. On the contrary, any good book on system administration should explain how to mount file systems (and hopefully how to use the apropos command). You then read the system's man pages for the specifics of how to do what you want to do on the particular system you are using. Or you can read the FAQ for an appropriate newsgroup (which, being a good Net citizen, you should always do before posting to it 8-) >Some people answered this by claiming that no documentation was necessary, >since FreeBSD is identical to any other BSD. Please could you cite a posting where someone has claimed that FreeBSD doesn't need any documentation. I would also like to see the posting in which it was claimed that "FreeBSD is identical to any other BSD". James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'