casper@sun.com wrote:
I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back
then)
couldn't handle / slices greater than 1GB, so if you stuck a 9GB disk inside of
an IPX or an
SS1+, you were forced to split / and /usr.
Pwow, I feel old now.
Nah, in the old
>I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back
>then)
>couldn't handle / slices greater than 1GB, so if you stuck a 9GB disk inside
>of an IPX or an
>SS1+, you were forced to split / and /usr.
>
>Pwow, I feel old now.
Nah, in the old days a disk was 35MB or perh
> The reason that there's a distinction between root and usr bits is
> that Solaris (at least at one point) supported booting off of a small
> local disk (containing just /), and remote mounting /usr.
I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back
then)
couldn't ha
UNIX admin writes:
> The "r" is the root portion of this component, payload which goes into /
> (usually /etc/, which is in the / filesystem).
> Then there is the "u" portion of the component, which goes into the /usr
> filesystem.
> Finally there is the "kr" portion of the component, which usual
> I notice that packages seem to come in three basic
> flavors: Usr, Root, and Kernel.
>
> Can someone explain what the precise differences are?
> I assume that "Usr" is a userland package, "Root"
> requires root privileges, and "Kernel" is a kernel
> module. But I want to confirm that.
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