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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!ivory.lm.com!not-for-mail From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Going from Linux to FreeBSD Date: 15 Sep 1995 16:15:50 -0400 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <43cmtm$bhc@ivory.lm.com> References: <DE1BG0.9Eu@iquest.net> <41um6g$1tb@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <1995Sep7.224247.28092@state.systems.sa.gov.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivory.lm.com 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. And if he dropped his computer off a cliff, it might not work, either. What, besides being a pain in the ass, is your point? -- "Actually, you just think that's a telephone. Really, it's the alarm that rings whenever I get out of my chair." -- E.S. Peter Berger. System Administrator, Telerama Public Access Internet http://www.lm.com/~peterb Serving Pittsburgh since 1991.