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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.202312.18627@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:23:12 GMT
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- In article <2411@adagio.lemis.uucp>, grog@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey) writes:
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- | Have you tried using a utility program such as DOS/diskcopy to make a
- | physical copy of the boot disk, then mount it and replace the kernel?
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- Seems to me I looked at that once and it either wasn't a filesystem at
- all or was an FDFS or some such and had only inode numbers for names.
- The short answer is that I tried but not very hard. Once I got a system
- up I have been enjoying reliability such that I haven't had to do such a
- thing, and if I did I could always pull the cards for the net, SSIO and
- rubber ducky and then boot the standard kernel.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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