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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:21:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To:        (David Nugent) <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, (Michael Smith) <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject:   Re: 2.2-BETA Questions
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970130154549.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
In-Reply-To: <19970129151534.YC06799@usn.blaze.net.au>

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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



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