From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 30 14:47:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07077 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:47:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sendero.i-connect.net ([206.190.144.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07058 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:47:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from shimon@localhost) by sendero.i-connect.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) id PAA09348; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:45:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19970129151534.YC06799@usn.blaze.net.au> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:21:39 -0800 (PST) Organization: iConnect Corp. From: Simon Shapiro To: (David Nugent) Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA Questions Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, (Michael Smith) Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi David Nugent; On 29-Jan-97 you wrote: ... > FWIW, I've seen this too. It occurs only when mounting a Linux ext2 > filesystem on a FreeBSD system, and then only sometimes. Unfortunately > that "sometimes" is *always* repeatable between any two boxes on which > it occurs and there doesn't seem to be any other way around it. the fix for that was posted already. Add -o resvport to the NFS mount options. ... The non-music CD is actually a ``Simon's Blind Special''. The CD is, on my system wcd0, not cd0. The /etc/fstab entry for /cdrom survived. The entries in /dev/ did not (after an upgrade). ... > This question is indicative of the biggest transition problems > in coming from any other PC operating system to BSD. Terminology: > > 'slice' is the same as a "partition" in DOS/OS2 terms. > 'partition' is the internal scheme BSD uses for paritioning > disks. Yup. Just like SVR4 :-) Thanx for the help... Simon