David A. Bandel ha scritto: > > Again, this is just too much trouble. And the install you forgot to dd > because you only have to do it once? I'd sure like to see the mess > after you fat-finger a key w/ dd. > > dd is the most dangerous command I know -- beats `alias rm='rm -f'` I > already use it way too often for my liking. > I've seen far more machine blocked at boot because someone did an error with lilo (like the most common of forgetting to run it) then machine destroyed by a dd.
And lilo has far more occasions to do an error than just a single dd, that must be done just one time. >> Also grub is written in C, lilo is assembly. I know which one I find >> easier to maintain and add features to. >> > > I haven't the time or desire to maintain or add features to lilo, grub, > or any of a thousand plus other packages. I install the binaries and > run with them. If I tinker w/ 3 packages a year, that's a lot. The problem doesn't lie on what you maintain by yourself, but in how it can be easy for others to maintain the package. And assembly it's just much harder to maintain. > > Lilo needs to stay in the exam. This is just your opinion and I strongly disagree. If you prefer LILO you can just use it, but this is a minority choice, and I do not think that this is an appropriate topic for a junior sysadmin exam like LPI 1. Otherwise why not require also the knowelegde of the tcsh? I know many people used to it thinking that it has a nicer syntax than bash... Regards Simone _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
