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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <BzMqp8.DCL@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <2406@adagio.lemis.uucp> <BzL0p3.A1K@chinet.chi.il.us> <2409@adagio.lemis.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:05:30 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <2409@adagio.lemis.uucp> grog@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey) writes:
-
- >>Dell has an escape clause that sometimes helps if the problem is
- >>just a bad kernel build. When you boot up it gives you a few seconds
- >>to hit the space bar and get a prompt for an alternate kernel to
- >>boot. Unix.old is always the last copy that worked.
- >
- >Funny you should say that. Look:
- >
- >+ === grog onlyyou:~ 66 -> ls -l /stand
- >+ total 7096
- >+ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3980 Dec 20 14:56 mip
- >+ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4204 Dec 20 14:56 sip
- >+ -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1945520 Dec 20 17:40 unix
- >+ -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1678764 Dec 20 16:14 unix.old
- >+ === grog onlyyou:~ 67 ->
- >
- >The thing is, of course, that I didn't know that, and - like Fred Fish
- >- didn't know how to get out of the graphics screen. If this had been
- >documented, it wouldn't have been a problem, but documentation is
- >almost non-existent.
- >
- >BTW, the old kernel is the vanilla flavour, the other one adds TCP/IP
- >and NFS support. Compare with a similar kernel under BSD/386:
-
- Dell would have unix.ok as the vanilla version, unix.old would be the
- previous build, unix would be the current build. I think TCP/IP and
- NFS are in unix.ok, though since the default dell load comes up with
- the network enabled if you have hardware in the right place.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-