Hi!
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:17:35PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Nick Holland wrote:
>>Really. /altroot is useful for certain things, but ONLY certain
>>things. Don't call it a backup, as it isn't rotated. You have
>I do backup everything.
>It's just that altroot is s
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Nick Holland wrote:
Really. /altroot is useful for certain things, but ONLY certain
things. Don't call it a backup, as it isn't rotated. You have
I do backup everything.
It's just that altroot is so easy to get a file you erased by mistake.
rm /etc/myfile... err fuck... m
* Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-07 04:22]:
> (add to that that Thunderbird is a brain-dead piece of shit when it
> comes to handling diffs in general and classic diffs even more so.
> Apparently, either Thunderbird devs aren't programmers or they never
> show their diffs to each other.)
or the
Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Nick Holland wrote:
>> what benefit do you see in having /altroot on the same disk as / ?
>
> See the thread "Regenerating damaged /etc" ;)
>
see /var/backup. :)
Really. /altroot is useful for certain things, but ONLY certain
things. Don't call it
Jan Stary wrote:
...
> See at bottom; looks much simpler now, hmm :-)
> I leave the RAID analogy to someone else.
>
> Anyway, first diff, screwed up,
I'd prefer the term, "learning experience".
> thanks for all the comments.
>
> Jan
>
>
> Index: faq4.html
> =
Hi all,
finally, a comment from someone who has a say in that.
> > this is a diff to faq4.html (the install faq) so that it mentions
> > /altroot for the installing user before he partitions his drive. Now,
> > the altroot feature is described in daily(8), which you only read when
> > you already
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Nick Holland wrote:
what benefit do you see in having /altroot on the same disk as / ?
See the thread "Regenerating damaged /etc" ;)
--
Antoine
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:23:55PM +1100, RW wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:26:04 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> >
> >Perhaps there needs to be a new fork: OldBSD: Unix for the Ages.
>
> s/Ages/Aged/ ??
>
> Given that I joined IBM in 1962, I am allowed to make such jokes.
> ~|^
> =
Ha!
Jan Stary wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is a diff to faq4.html (the install faq) so that it mentions
> /altroot for the installing user before he partitions his drive. Now,
> the altroot feature is described in daily(8), which you only read when
> you already have a system installed, your disk is alre
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:26:04 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
>Perhaps there needs to be a new fork: OldBSD: Unix for the Ages.
s/Ages/Aged/ ??
Given that I joined IBM in 1962, I am allowed to make such jokes.
~|^
=
>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look from up over?
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:11:55PM +0100, ropers wrote:
> On 06/11/2007, Jan Stary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is using a larger disk in the example a problem? Using a 20G disk makes
> > the point of showing how usable the system is even on a small disk, but
> > 20G disks don't really exist anym
> > 20G disks don't really exist anymore.
>
>
>O RLY?
>
>
> I always thought my 20 Gig HDD was the largest of my eight drives.
> Are you saying it's Schroedinger's hard drive?
>
> What about the others?
> My 200 MB would like to have a little word with you, and it doesn't
> look like it's p
On 06/11/2007, Jan Stary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> PS: As this is a small diff, I edited (my copy of) faq4.html manually;
> but if I was to write up something bigger - is there some script(1)-like
> log of the whole installation, or can I create one? Drop into shell at
> the very beginning, an
On 06/11/2007, Jan Stary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is using a larger disk in the example a problem? Using a 20G disk makes
> the point of showing how usable the system is even on a small disk, but
> 20G disks don't really exist anymore.
O RLY?
I always thought my 20 Gig HDD was the lar
Hi all,
this is a diff to faq4.html (the install faq) so that it mentions
/altroot for the installing user before he partitions his drive. Now,
the altroot feature is described in daily(8), which you only read when
you already have a system installed, your disk is already partitioned,
and typicall
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