Re: Beware of UnixWare 7...And Lysdexia?

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Thomas Good writes: > The part that compares system initialisation is especially useful. > I use both getty and ttymon and the book does a good job comparing > the two strategies...I wish they'd do a new edition. I like > Aeleen Frisch (SP? ;-) You got that one right :) >

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7...And Lysdexia?

1999-06-21 Thread Thomas Good
On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Thomas Good writes: > > Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due > > to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once > > stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. > > Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass,

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Thomas Good writes: > Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due > to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once > stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, Hein. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 20:38:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:54:44AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > [[ ... ]] >> >> I've tried twice more to install UnixWare. It makes all the right >> noises, but on reboot it just hangs. I'm giving up now. >> > >Maybe you sho

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:54:44AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: [[ ... ]] > > I've tried twice more to install UnixWare. It makes all the right > noises, but on reboot it just hangs. I'm giving up now. > Maybe you should check out Limux 6.0. I just saw it shrink-wrapped (RedHat + M

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Thomas Good
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I have run UnixWare since day 1 - when Novell bought it from USL. > > I used it right from the beginning. The problems I recall were > disappearing files and failing NFS config; the latter was crucial for > the work I was doing, and the only way I found

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Thomas Good
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: > > >Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due > >to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once > >stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. > > I enjoy reading the section in that book on network hard

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 7:17:14 -0400, Thomas Good wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a >> UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I >> tried installing it on a machine with two other

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Dennis
>Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due >to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once >stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. I enjoy reading the section in that book on network hardware whenever I need a good laugh. People should

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Thomas Good
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a > UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I > tried installing it on a machine with two other systems installed. It > failed to install (looped trying to instal

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Mark Newton
Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 18:44:50 +0930, Mark Newton wrote: > > SCO has been a real pain in the bum about partition tables for as > > long as I can remember. > > To be fair, this is UnixWare You mean "UnixSwear," don't you? :-) - mark Mark Newton

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 11:29:53 +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: >> FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. >> In my case, FreeBSD was on partition 2, devices /dev/rwd0s2a and >> /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device nam

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Greg Lehey wrote: > FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. > In my case, FreeBSD was on partition 2, devices /dev/rwd0s2a and > /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names > changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e. Since I didn'

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 18:44:50 +0930, Mark Newton wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a >> UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. > > SCO has been a real pain in the bum about partition tables for as > lo

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Mark Newton
Greg Lehey wrote: > Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a > UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. SCO has been a real pain in the bum about partition tables for as long as I can remember. Don't even try installing it anywhere other th

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 8:29:10 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a >> UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I > ... >> When I rebooted, I found that it had overwritten the Master Boot >> Record (which is

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a > UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I ... > When I rebooted, I found that it had overwritten the Master Boot > Record (which is silly, since it knew there were two other systems on > the disk), a

Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I tried installing it on a machine with two other systems installed. It failed to install (looped trying to install drivers it didn't need). When I rebooted, I fo