Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 07:52:36 -0800 (PST) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: owensc@enc.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: is NCI's "NC Server Suite" FreeBSD-based? Message-ID: <199711141552.HAA29091@foo.primenet.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971113163349.10896B-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu>
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[Redirected to -chat] In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >Anyone know the answer? >At the bottom of the URL: > http://www.nc.com/techpubs/ncss200.html >... I was very surprised to find this: >// begin snippet (note item 4) >How to make an update floppy disk [...] > 4.Format a floppy disk for FreeBSD. [...] >FYI, NCI is the Oracle spinoff that develops an NC (network computer) and >related support products. Well, one of Free/Net/OpenBSD, at least, and not BSDi, and with the reference to FreeBSD, it'd have to be the leading candidate. Running file on the executable they want you to update reveals: {foo} ~/nc 7:42 ttyp7 > file dhcpd dhcpd: BSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped Not surprising, I guess, but no one has mentioned it before. -- bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/
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