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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!news.cerf.net!mvb.saic.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!tubsibr!dagobert.rob.cs.tu-bs.de!mk l From: mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Mario Klebsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 5 Dec 95 14:51:03 GMT Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <mkl.818175063@dagobert.rob.cs.tu-bs.de> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49o2n2$t4e@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <49q9ol$7l@dyson.iquest.net> <49ssit$51@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <49teb7$ac@dyson.iquest.net> <49vk97$9es@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: dagobert.rob.cs.tu-bs.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29589 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9979 comp.unix.advocacy:11862 comp.unix.misc:19912 tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes: >Eg how do I mount a floppy disk, or a CD-ROM? >How do I access DOS partitions? How do I create/fsck/mount the root/usr partitions? The last time, I used Linux, it took a long time to figure out about mke2fs (no newfs), mount -t ext2 and e2fsck. Sometimes it is called e2, sometimes ext2. When I wanted to do a backup, I was missing dump. And it had almost no man pages :-(. OK, it is more than one year ago. When I installed FreeBSD for a friend of mine, I had absolutly no problems in using this machine in single user mode. newfs worked fine, and mounting afterwards required no f*cky options. And I had man man pages as well as dump:-). <FLAME>IMHO Linux looks like UNIX for a user, but for an admin, who has to clean up after a catastrophy it has almost nothing in common with UNIX.</FLAME> 73, Mario -- Mario Klebsch, DG1AM, M.Klebsch@tu-bs.de +49 531 / 391 - 7457 Institut fuer Robotik und Prozessinformatik der TU Braunschweig Hamburger Strasse 267, 38114 Braunschweig, Germany