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 so easy
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
* 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 they
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
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.
shouting
O RLY?
/shouting
I always thought my 20 Gig HDD
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, and run
snip
20G disks don't really exist anymore.
shouting
O RLY?
/shouting
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
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 anymore.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:26:04 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Jest
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.
~|^
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From the land down under: Australia.
Do we look umop apisdn from up over?
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 already
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:
Jest
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! When I
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