From: erc@warrior.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: Some Linux problems---solved Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 02:47:43 GMT
Matt Welsh (mdw@TC.Cornell.EDU) wrote:
: In article <1993Jun21.005149.19924@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu> u1086aa@unx.ucc.okstate.edu (11086) writes:
: > And despite
: > what a previous poster said, it really did say bad filesystem. Our
: > resident Unix (but not Linux) guru who helped sort out the TCP/IP
: > mess saw it and said I had to re-install.)
: Interesting. I just looked through the entire code for the ext2fs, and
: can't find any error messages about "bad filesystem" or any permutations
: thereof. I did find one for "unchecked filesystem" and "bad directory".
: But then again, you don't mount a directory... :)
It says "mounting unchecked filesystem". If your "guru" says that you have to
re-install, he's not much of a guru, is he? He clearly doesn't know what he's
talking about.
: "Carefully reading the documentation" does not mean that you have to
: pedantically follow it. As with every UNIX system, there is a lot that you
: have to figure out as you go along: the docs can't tell you everything.
: And, yes, the docs are incorrect or innaccurate at many times: Linux develops
: very rapidly! :)
After all, Linus isn't for weenies. :)
: >My point is the same as it was at first, if you want a system that you
: >set up in an hour, **be sure everything is done correctly**, and get to
: >work on immediately, IMHO COHERENT is the one.
Not at all. I reinstalled Linux on a trashed root filesystem in under an
hour. No problem. Compared to Linux, Coherent is sadly missing many
features that makes Linus so attractive.
: And I doubt that using Coherent will get you girls. :)
On the other hand, my female roommate swooned the first time she saw X and
Linux running on my laptop. :)
-- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 510/659-9560People ask me how I do it, and I say "There's nothing to it! You just stand there looking cute ... and when something moves, YOU SHOOT!" -- Tom Lehrer