From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 7 5:34:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573DD37B719 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.wiliweld.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id FAA01181; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:34:07 -0800 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:31:30 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: Russell Francis Cc: Super Saijin , Subject: Re: About Unix In-Reply-To: Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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