civileme wrote: > David Guntner wrote: > >> KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> >>> David Guntner wrote: >>> >>>> I tried to create a separate /etc filesystem ... >>>> >>> Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong ... >>> >>> During bootup the kernel needs to read /etc/fstab to know what other >>> filesystems (partitions) to mount where. If /etc/fstab is not in the >>> root filesystem, the system will never be able to finish mounting the >>> filesystems. >>> >> >> That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that. >> >> But it's still annoying. :-) It just makes more sense now. Thanks >> for the reality check. >> >> --Dave >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to >> http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > Actually, making separate filesystems of any of the following will stop > the system in its tracks: > > /etc, /bin, /lib, /sbin > > Those really need to be in /. > Now as for > > alias rm rm -i > > suppose you are typing > > rm -r /somepath/.somecorruptedconfigdir -f > > and at the point where you have typed > > rm -r / > > The cat jumps up to get your attention and lands a paw on <Enter>. > > Are you going to chuckle because you didn't type -f and the -i is > already aliased in? Or are you going to determine if cat really tastes > like chicken because you didn't have -i? > I don't know about you, but 98% of the time my computer has a problem, > the problem has its hands on my keyboard, and I have too much data > flying in a single day to risk it til the next backup for the sake of a > little convenience. I would call it thoughtful rather than paternalistic. > > Some of the things that might appear paternalistic are not in fact so. > They are forced to some decision. For example, if you have an internet > connection and a local network connection, you can put in one nameserver > for the LAN and two for the internet. Major redesign at linux standards > level is involved for more than 3 nameservers, and it either had to be > two for one and one for the other or one for each and another reserved > for an additional purpose. That is for the GUI setup scripts. Of > course you find all of them regardless in /etc/resolv.conf, just set up > a bit differently in /etc/sysconfig/network, and you can certainly > change this with an editor. > > Finally, we are targeting windows desktop migrants and NT server > migrations rather than trying to draw customers away from other linux > distros, so you can expect an approach that does a little hand-holding > as the audience has come to expect. (They say we don't do enough, > especially when they blow up their systems using the update program on a > kernel -- well look at our new kernel update numbering--it won't show > as an update--have to DL and install) > > Civileme >
Civileme, Truely, it's guys like you working for a distro like Mandrake that cause me to love and respect Mandrake so much. Well said! No matter how you slice it, pound for pound... ounce for ounce, Mandrake has them all beat. While with Linux, it's all good the cream always rises to the top. Mark
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