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- From: larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:25:51 GMT
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- peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
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- >> Well you haven't seen Dell SVR4 2.2 (release 4.0). One can boot off the boot
- >> disk, switch to the system disk when prompted, then exit to the shell and
- >> mount your hard disk drives and modify (and execute) your applications
- >> to you hearts content.
-
- >Well, that's certainly a good first step, getting back to where Xenix was in
- >'85. What is on the system disk? (mount, umount, cat, fsck, cpio, mkfs, dd,
- >echo, ls, df, ...?) How well is this documented? Can you remove the system
- >disk, insert another floppy, and mount it?
-
- What happens is that mount, find, etc is copied to ram disks and executed
- from there. You can execute the tools from the ram disks to mount the hard
- drives and I would think floppies (I haven't tried mounting floppies, but
- I believe that is is possible since the networking disk is mounted
- from the ram disk (which enables one to do a complete OS install -- including
- the add-on packages like cnews, gnu, etc over a network -- what happens is
- that you are prompted for the IP address and directory paths to the server
- from the inet installation disk -- and presto -- the base OS and selected
- packages are copied over the network). I don't know exactly what tools on
- copied to the ram disk -- but I know mount, mkfs, dd, and find are..
-
- Is this documented? I don't think it completely is --
-
- At boot time, you are prompts for a network installation, tape installation
- or system administration -- the latter of which dumps you with a shell prompt
- to poke around :)
-
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