[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >I don't have any experience with MacOS X and only a very small amount > >with Darwin, but it's probably similar to other Unixes. > > Mac OS X is different from other Unixes in several ways, the biggest is the > dependancy on NetInfo instead of the flat files in /etc (actually > /private/etc). One other difference is that partitions are mounted by the > name of the volume, not by device name (Note that RH is moving to a similar > system). This can trip up those used to editing /etc/fstab with entries > like "/dev/hda2".
The little time I spent in Darwin was mostly spent trying to get NetInfo to do what I wanted (1). Still, it looked as though most things were user configurable if one tried hard enough. I just fired up Darwin for the first time in a while- it's old (Kernel 1.4.1). /sbin/mount gives /dev/disk0s7 as being mounted as the root, which looks like a device name(2). Does it handle non-root partitions differently? Does MacOS X not like these stupid Darwin tricks? > One reason for this is that the entries in /dev are dynamically created at > boot time, not by a MAKEDEV script. This means you can't be sure a given > device will have the same /dev entries between boots. Actually, I think most of the Linux distributions are going to a special devfs filesystem for /dev/. It pretty much looks the same, i.e. the contents have the same node numbers as if it were a standard ext2fs, but it's just a virtual filesystem. It looks similar to the devfs system on my Darwin system. One of these days I'll probably get a MacOS X box. My advisor got his Dual G4 yesterday, and I think he was the last of the people in the building to use MacOS 9 as his desktop. Except, of course for grad students. I still keep on seeing quadras hiding in offices and labs, I assume waiting for their next grad students... **** supplementary material *more* boring than the main text follows! **** (1)It kept wanting to do network DNS queries before checking the hosts files, regardless of the query order in the netinfo database!. I finally wrote a couple of scripts to remove and replace DNS as a name resolution method. It would make things take longer if the DNS server wasn't available- which is most of the time on my home network. A couple of scripts to remove and replace DNS in the allowed name resolution methods NetInfo entry. (2)Probably the eighth slice of the first disk. -- Dana [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
