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From: mattb@sdd.hp.com (Matt Bonner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD 2.0R: Dir structure, etc
Date: 7 Dec 1994 02:46:24 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
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Distribution: world
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Keywords: DOSFS /home rogue clock
Okay, installation of 2.0R went pretty smoothly after I gave
up on floppies and used the DOS part of the hard drive, congrats
to the FreeBSD team! But what little sysadmin skills I acquired
with 386bsd seem to have become irrelevant. My questions...
1. Is there somewhere traditional one should mount a DOS file-
system? I notice /mnt and I notice that the install uses
that, but that doesn't leave room for mounting floppies and
such. Is there an intended scheme?
2. I went ahead and made / and /usr different filesystems as
the docs suggest, but I notice user accts go in /home, ie
on /. Is this intentional? There ain't much space there...
3. Why, when booting up, does the kernel call my faithful
Archive Viper 2150 "a known rogue"? Is there something I
should be watching out for?
4. I set the CMOS clock to GMT after reading the warnings, but
of course Windoze now always thinks it's 3 in the morning
or some such. Anyone know if there's a way to get windoze
to consider time zones? (Yes, I know this isn't a windoze
group, but I figure the problem will be somewhat common).
5. When I log in as myself, the backspace key just echos ^H's
so I always have to stty erase ^H. What's the best way
to fix this? I can just put it in every .cshrc I suppose...
6. What's the correct way to shutdown the machine if I want
to power off the computer? I did something like
shutdown +1
but I was left at a prompt and got fsck errors next time
I powered up...
Sorry to be such a newbie, I tried looking through the FAQ's,
but didn't see much to help with these questions, are they all
there somewhere?
help! (thanks)
matt
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