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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 8 Dec 1995 20:16:04 -0800
Organization: Mind-reading, super-smart bisexuals with silly names
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In article <mkl.818175063@dagobert.rob.cs.tu-bs.de>,
Mario Klebsch <mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote:
>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?
>
>How do I create/fsck/mount the root/usr 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.
><FLAME>IMHO Linux looks like UNIX for a user, but for an admin, who
>has to clean up after a catastrophy it has almost nothing in common
>with UNIX.</FLAME>
"catastrophe"
And, aside from that, you're wrong. My machine has been running
close to the limit of the power supply (*) for a while now, and it
occasionally goes badly south (like, sigh, today, when both the
news filesystem and the tape drive bought the farm.) When I
picked it off the floor, the only nonstandard command I used was
'badblocks'; I think that your are making the xBSD fanatic mistake
of assuming that all Unices look and act exactly like BSD.
____
david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
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(* How did I find this out? Oh, I put in a third SCSI
controller and the machine started to freeze up and die within 60
seconds of boot. I took it out and lo and behold, it's still running
a hour and a half later, but unfortunately without the poor tape
drive, which was in the throes of reading a tape when the machine
fell over. Sigh.)