On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:02:37PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Simon Matter wrote:
> > Dan Hollis schrieb:
> > > On 5 Dec 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> > > > It is also not 'install a cdrom', it is boot with a bootable cdrom.
> > > This machine doesnt have any cdrom drive, so it is "install a cdrom drive"
> > > just to fix the root fs. :-(
> > But you have a floppy drive, do you? So why don't you take boot/root
> > floppies instead? They are available as well.
>
> No floppy either. I will have to install one. This sucks :-(
I would call only one method of booting the computer "all eggs in one
frail basket" (and even that only if I was feeling very polite).
Other boot methods would be a second hard drive you can plug in, network
boot and another miniroot (which won't work in case the bootblock (or
MBR) gets hosed).
> > > It was *really* suprising to me that you can't repair a read-only mounted
> > > filesystem, I suspect it will be equally suprising to others.
> > What is life without surprise? Windwos users are also surprised when
> > they learn that we don't have (need) a C: on our computers :-)
>
> Suprised in the respect that ext2 and reiserfs have no such limitation, I
> was expecting xfs to be at least as functional and mature.
Different is not neccessarily.. oh, hell. I'm not going there =)
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