Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Neth Jr wrote: > ... > > Did this newbie (me) do this wrong? > > > > cd / > > cp bsd bsd.old > > cp bsd.mp bsd > > #reboot > > PERSONALLY, I prefer to call the single processor kernel "bsd.sp", > rather than "bsd.old". "bsd.old" is most commonly the "previous kernel > before I tried to build my own and hosed the heck out of everything". :) > But yes, other than the one small detail, this is my prefered way. > Altering boot.conf is dangerous. Art's story isn't the only one I've > heard along those lines from developers.
The best one I've heard was about a "unix" consultant that was trained on RedHat. He was hired to do some job at a customer on a real system and as part of that job he decided to clean up /etc. Since rm is alias to "rm -i" on RedHat, he typed "rm /etc/*" //art
