Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:31:30 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu> Cc: Super Saijin <stmfnman@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0103070508100.7453-100000@corten8> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010307005123.578A-100000@p1>
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At Wed, 7 Mar 2001 it looks like Russell Francis composed: frusse->Within that family there are several flavors. Some of the more popular frusse->ones being Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris. To get a feel for how many different frusse->flavors there are of Unix look at frusse-> http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?ugu frusse->and click on "Unix Flavors" frusse-> frusse->> How do I run unix? ............ It's good your asking these questions for I got "stuck" on Linux for two years before I realized the rest of the Unix world does not call their devices the same names as linux does, hence I realized *THEN* that it pays to at realize such. You may call your car /dev/auto and FreeBSD may call the exact same car /dev/vehicle and Solaris may call it /dev/transport The main thing to remember it that the Unix distro's are all making reference to the "SAME HARD DRIVE !!!" Here are some real examples of disk drives LINUX = /dev/hda1 (my first partition on IDE drive) FreeBSD = /dev/ad0s4a (my first partition on IDE drive) Solaris-8 (Intel) /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 (my first partition on IDE drive) HP-UX = /dev/vg00/lvol1 (pulled this from CCSF in San Francisco) The same goes for ethernet connections also; LINUX = eth0 FreeBSD = ep0 Solairs-8 (Intel) = iprb0 HP-UX = lan1 (?) -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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