From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 18 13:10:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA10117 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 13:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA10108 for ; Sun, 18 May 1997 13:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-129 [207.14.72.129]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA28816; Sun, 18 May 1997 11:07:44 -0800 Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 18:35:35 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Josh Lynch cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /stand directory In-Reply-To: <199705180957.EAA00845@tyme.visi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 18 May 1997, Josh Lynch wrote: > I'm fairly new to BSD based systems (coming from SCO & Linux which I consider > more SVR4 than *BSD) I have a few general ,simple questions: > 1. Why are most binaries in the system mutiples of 512bytes? Is this because > the filesystem is based on disk blocks (of 512k)? yes. > 2. What are all the files in the /stand for/do, they seem awful big and > are all the same size, which is kind of odd. (to me anyway :-) ) they come off boot.flp. > 3. Where could I find out more about the booting process (sysconfig, rc.*, > init , etc..) I know SVR4 pretty well, but can't seem to get a good > conceptual grasp on *BSD based booting. man init and man login and follow the "SEE ALSO's". > 4. Is the 4.4BSD documentation set (5 books) any good? yes. > "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in > the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." --Calvin hehe! - but i'm not so sure they haven't ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------