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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <BzHCE5.8FG@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 00:08:29 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.232841.7252@solucor.uucp> <id.89SV.GJ8@ferranti.com> <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- In article <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
-
- >:The ability to stick a floppy in a brand new computer, turn it on, and
- >:have it come up running UNIX.
-
- >SCO ODT 2.0 is almost that simple. Stick in a floppy, stick in
- >a tape, answer a few questions about system name, set root
- >passsword, wait for tape to finish loading.
-
- Let's suppose that you manage to misconfigure the system such that
- it won't boot from the hard disk. How long does it take to fix
- it? With windows/dos, you just boot from a floppy and twiddle the
- config.sys and autoexec.bat files till it works again. With unix,
- you might be able to do this if you have prepared an emegerency
- boot disk ahead of time or know how to bail out from the install
- disks and know which of several dozen files to modify.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-