just an other Linux rant (was: Re: [geeks] fw)

[Jochen Kunz]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 05:00:08PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:

> Jochen hates Linux.
Yes. Linux is a cheap child toy and ever will be. (The *BSDs are toys 
too, but they are the type of toy your grandchilds will still play with.)

Latest interresting Linux experience: Cloned Linux box on used HDD.
I suspect there was some Win* on that HDD before. Repartitiond, 
mkreiserfs (have to use Suse, puke), tar src-HDD | tar dest-HDD,
lilo. reboot, kernel panic, can't start init. Bootet old disk. 
mounted new disk, all OK!? lilo, retried, the same. Looked closer 
at boot messages: UMSDOS? Why wants it to mount / as UMSDOS?
Ohhh. Linux guesses the / FS type. You can't tell it / = reiser.
So it snooped around, found some FAT residuum => / FS type = UMSDOS.
Found no way to tell it to use reiser. 
dd-ed /dev/zero to the disk, did the whole thing again and now it works.
I will have some "nice" Linux LVM games the next days...

Ahhh. This rant makes me feel better now. ;-)
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tsch,
         Jochen

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