Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:01:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> Cc: Eric <erics@idirect.com>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: More then 4 Partitions on a SCSI drive. Message-ID: <19990616180119.B636@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179675@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>; from Ladavac Marino on Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 10:24:36AM %2B0200 References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179675@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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On Wednesday, 16 June 1999 at 10:24:36 +0200, Ladavac Marino wrote: >> On Wednesday, June 16, 1999 3:03 AM, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >> To: Eric >> Cc: Christian Weisgerber; FreeBSD Questions >> Subject: Re: More then 4 Partitions on a SCSI drive. >> >> 3. After installation, create a directory /usr/var and make /var a >> symbolic link to it. You don't need an /opt file system, but if >> you want one, do the same thing with it. Do I detect an SNI >> background? >> > [ML] Greg, regardless how high our (dis)like for SINIX is, /opt > is pretty much a SVR4 thing. Sure. > SINIX is just as vanilla SVR4 as it can get, and still work on > Siemens hardware (some of which is actually reasonably good--the > 600E series:) I have worked for SNI in the past, so I know the machines in some detail. It's your assumption that I'm saying anything negative about them. But they *do* have this irritating habit of installing 5 partitions on every system disk, and you can't stop them. I once spent 2 days on SNI time trying. > I think you are detecting Linux here (some distributions--RedHat > IIRC--use that as well). Possibly. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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