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From: markv@pixar.com (Mark VandeWettering)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Going from Linux to FreeBSD
Date: 15 Sep 1995 19:57:54 GMT
Organization: pixar
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Message-ID: <43cls2$54k@pixar.com>
References: <DE1BG0.9Eu@iquest.net> <41um6g$1tb@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <1995Sep7.224247.28092@state.systems.sa.gov.au>
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In article <1995Sep7.224247.28092@state.systems.sa.gov.au>,
<chdemgt@state.systems.sa.gov.au> wrote:
>In article <41um6g$1tb@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) writes:
>> In article <DE1BG0.9Eu@iquest.net>, David Anderson <partek@indecent.com> wrote:
>>>
>> Might I also add that FreeBSD is an excellent choice for an ISP. :)
>>
>>>3- Does FreeBSD have any ways of doing "distaster recovery"? Like I
>>> commonly, while playing with the kernel or a critical bootup file,
>>> leave Linux unbootable, and have to use my install disks to fix things.
>>
>> Never did FreeBSD ever leave me in a state where I had to boot
>> from a floppy, so your point is moot. ;-) When installing kernels,
>
>It is far from moot, but your failure to answer is eloquent. If you
>had a corrupted sh and csh in /bin, and you had deleted or forgotten
>about /stand, you would be in a lot of trouble. The system would
>boot into single user mode, prompt you for a shell and you would be
>unable to a thing.
Um, yes, that is true, but the point is that FreeBSD doesn't generally
have problems such that /bin/sh and /bin/csh become corrupted.
Mark
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