Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:35:04 +0300 (EET DST) From: Seppo Kallio <kallio@cc.jyu.fi> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers-digest@freebsd.org, Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Subject: Re: hackers-digest V1 #1436 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.92.960905093210.16502C-100000@kanto.cc.jyu.fi> In-Reply-To: <199609040312.UAA17647@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> Good point. I much prefer BSD's boot procedure in terms of flexibility, > and since it's been around for so long, the kernel is fairly well > understood in terms of adding devices. That's why we only need one boot > disk (and "boot -v" will allow device driver parameters to be editing for > things that don't autoprobe correctly) vs. a ton of Linux boot disks, each > tweaked for slightly different configurations. I think that is not true. Linux RedHat has only one boot disk, with it you can install using nfs, ftp, cdrom (ide also) etc. Seppo Kallio kallio@jyu.fi Computing Center Fax +358-14-603611 U of Jyväskylä 62.14N 25.44E Phone +358-14-603606 PL 35, 40351 Jyväskylä, Finland http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio
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