Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:55:55 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Separate boot partition? Message-ID: <19990408085555.A33885@Denninger.Net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990408094857.17672Q-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:50:38AM -0400 References: <19990408001549.A8505@keltia.freenix.fr> <Pine.HPP.3.96.990408094857.17672Q-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
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I personally HATE HPs software installation and management system. Its ok for a stand-alone system. It BITES when you're trying to distribute updates and changes. One thing good about FreeBSD - you can rationally have one "master" machine and do the rest of them (from a software perspective) on a network with "rdist" and friends. This is dangerous on HP and other "embedded boot" types of machines, because its not difficult at all to run into a situation where you can't boot the machine any longer (I've had it happen). I STRONGLY dislike "hidden" configuration and operating system components which make it difficult to be certain that what you're doing is going to work. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Web: fathers.denninger.net I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:50:38AM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > > Speaking of HP again, another well-done things in HP-UX is their packaging > > system (swinstall, swpackage and all that). It works well for the system, > > packages and patches and makes building of packages very easy... > > I can safely say that I could not get a single patch to apply cleanly when > I cared about my HP9000/e25 (HP/UX 10.10) machine. > > The above machine was turned into the cheezy SMTP server that it is now, > and the machine from which I send this e-mail. > > Oh well. > > - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - > - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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