[H-GEN] partitioning again

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:

> Windows and Debian, RedHat and Hurd, Free and NetBSD... Whatever.

Yep, ok, 1 partition per OS, but other than that, my original question
still stands - do we need to bother with partitioning anymore, or is it
now a false idol :)
  
> Oh. Btw. Has anyone actually tried out VSTa? I've been semi-following the
> mailing list for some time now for no reason I remember, but it was
> recently mentioned on the linux-kernel list as a `free plan9'. Plan9 is
> *very* cool, so I'm suddenly re-interested in this.

I knew it was a free plan9 clone - but that is the limit of my knowledge -
except to add that I believe that doens't always follow plan9 100% in
braindead aspects.
 
> (Hmmm. Interesting. I no longer cound Linux as an `alternative' OS. Hmmm.
> `9 out of 10 triple j listeners prefer linux?' ? ;)

Is that a quote? :)

Linux is still fringe, imho, but not alternative.  There are still alot
of ppl who have heard of it but don't use it.

> I actually bugged Jason (the Apt author guy) about this a while ago,
> and it's now fixed. Add:
> 
>   DPkg  
>   {
>      // Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr
>      Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
>      Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};
>   }
> 
> to /etc/apt/apt.conf. It's included in the example apt.conf in
> /usr/doc/apt.

Cool! :)

> (Meeting RMS rocked, btw. Jason P took notes, so if we beg and nag and
> stuff enough, we might even get a summary of the evening...)

Circumstances beyond my control prevented me from attending - and after I
said I would be there too :)  Oh well.
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
                                robert.brockway at uq.net.au
			 WWW:   http://www.oc.humbug.org.au/~robert
			 Founder of HUMBUG (http://www.humbug.org.au)


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