Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Thomas Good t...@nrnet.org writes: Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, Hein. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav -

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7...And Lysdexia?

1999-06-21 Thread Thomas Good
On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Thomas Good t...@nrnet.org writes: Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. Nemeth, Snyder,

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7...And Lysdexia?

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Thomas Good t...@nrnet.org writes: The part that compares system initialisation is especially useful. I use both getty and ttymon and the book does a good job comparing the two strategies...I wish they'd do a new edition. I like Aeleen Frisch (SP? ;-) You got that one right :)

Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I tried installing it on a machine with two other systems installed. It failed to install (looped trying to install drivers it didn't need). When I rebooted, I

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I ... When I rebooted, I found that it had overwritten the Master Boot Record (which is silly, since it knew there were two other systems on the disk), and

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 8:29:10 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I ... When I rebooted, I found that it had overwritten the Master Boot Record (which is silly,

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Mark Newton
Greg Lehey wrote: Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. SCO has been a real pain in the bum about partition tables for as long as I can remember. Don't even try installing it anywhere other

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 18:44:50 +0930, Mark Newton wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. SCO has been a real pain in the bum about partition tables for as long as I

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Greg Lehey wrote: FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. In my case, FreeBSD was on partition 2, devices /dev/rwd0s2a and /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e. Since I didn't

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 11:29:53 +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Greg Lehey wrote: FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. In my case, FreeBSD was on partition 2, devices /dev/rwd0s2a and /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Mark Newton
Greg Lehey wrote: On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 18:44:50 +0930, Mark Newton wrote: SCO has been a real pain in the bum about partition tables for as long as I can remember. To be fair, this is UnixWare You mean UnixSwear, don't you? :-) - mark Mark Newton

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Thomas Good
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I tried installing it on a machine with two other systems installed. It failed to install (looped trying to install

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Dennis
Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. I enjoy reading the section in that book on network hardware whenever I need a good laugh. People shouldnt

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 7:17:14 -0400, Thomas Good wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I tried installing it on a machine with two other

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Thomas Good
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. I enjoy reading the section in that book on network hardware

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Thomas Good
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: I have run UnixWare since day 1 - when Novell bought it from USL. I used it right from the beginning. The problems I recall were disappearing files and failing NFS config; the latter was crucial for the work I was doing, and the only way I found to

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:54:44AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: [[ ... ]] I've tried twice more to install UnixWare. It makes all the right noises, but on reboot it just hangs. I'm giving up now. Maybe you should check out Limux 6.0. I just saw it shrink-wrapped (RedHat +

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 20:38:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:54:44AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: [[ ... ]] I've tried twice more to install UnixWare. It makes all the right noises, but on reboot it just hangs. I'm giving up now. Maybe you should check