From: Michele Andreoli ([email protected])
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 16:25:25 CET
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:55:57PM -0500, Alfie Costa nicely wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2001, at 13:43, Michele Andreoli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Without USR you cannot create the TMP ramdisk: any ramdisk requires
> > the mkfs.ext2. So, you cannot load any onther addon, without the *first*
> > addon USR in memory. Why you answered "n" to /usr?
>
> Last night when writing my message, I thought about quoting Eliza "YOU ARE
> BEING A BIT NEGATIVE." or "ARE YOU SAYING 'NO' JUST TO BE NEGATIVE?"...
>
> Yes, I answered "n" just to be negative. The intention was only to confuse and
> crash the system. Which is a good thing, when looking for bugs, no?
Very good. I can accept the answer.
>
> Question: if /usr is necessary, why ask the user?
In some transient release, I removed this setup, indeed. After that, I
got problem with some logics, now forgotten.
Why ask the user? Because, at the beginning, the right answer for a
4M machine is "n". After that, the planned action at the prompt is "clone".
The USR segment is considered an addon. I tried to declass it in a simple
script in /etc/rc. After that I discovered that: the script should be
an exact copy of /setup/fun/LOADER. So, why to mantains two different
coding-stype for the same task?
>
> > AC> mc: not found
> >
> > Ok, you are joking.
>
> No no, seriously, I figured 'mc' would be a link to 'pion'...
Maybe, in the past, there was a such link. Do not remember.
I can add it, but surely this kind of links confuse a little.
>
> > AC> I type 'pion'.
> > AC>
> > AC> dialog: not found
> > AC> muless: not found
> >
> > yes, you are joking.
>
> No no no, in all earnest, 'pion' is useful for exploring the file tree. I
> wanted to look around at the bare-bones mu to see what might be wrong. 'pion'
> is easier than typing 'cd' and 'ls' and 'cat < myfile | more'.
Pion was always based on "muless" and "muless" is the USR addon.
That is never changed.
For a mistake (now fixed), a copy of "pion" is also in /bin, as well as
in /usr/bin. So, I removed /bin/pion.
Michele
-- In summing up, I wish I had some kind of affirmative message to leave you with, I don't. Would you take two negative messages? - Woody Allen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
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