From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 1:31:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5251150A7 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 01:31:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA25813; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:01:29 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA05503; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:01:20 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:01:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ladavac Marino Cc: Eric , Christian Weisgerber , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: More then 4 Partitions on a SCSI drive. Message-ID: <19990616180119.B636@freebie.lemis.com> References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179675@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179675@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>; from Ladavac Marino on Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 10:24:36AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 16 June 1999 at 10:24:36 +0200, Ladavac Marino wrote: >> On Wednesday, June 16, 1999 3:03 AM, Greg Lehey 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