Minifridge

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, heviarti at puresimplicity.net wrote:

>   Well, I'm in. Don't know why -fl s worked now but not before.  It's a 
> UNIX, but I'm not sure which. There's no uname in single user mode. 
> Neither is there passwd, vi, or even a paginator. I'll worry about that 
> on the other list.

 So what does e.g.:

# mount

say?  Or:

# cat /etc/fstab

>   With all respect to Matt Turner, On the other list I'll find one of 
> two things: All the same people that are here, or people who've always 
> had corporate machines, and never pulled one out of a dumpster/junkpile. 
> Almost every RISC machine I've ever owned has been salvage, and fixed 
> with components from stuff local PC shops get at auction.  I know many 
> more people in the Linux community who have done this.  Generally when 
> you have access to corporate stuff you learn much less about patching 
> them up after hosing herring and tomato sauce out of 'em.

 Agreed, common sense applies -- the amount of traffic on this list these 
days is almost zero, so a couple of messages per month can't seriously 
hurt anyone.  The Alpha (Linux or otherwise) hacker and user communities 
have obviously shrunk dramatically (I've been on this list for some 12 
years now; there used to be actual traffic here) and asking here you have 
a chance to reach someone who actually still knows the answer.  
Especially as your problem is one at the boundary between the hardware, 
the firmware and the OS, and chances are free software hackers are better 
at such subtleties than corporate sysadmins. ;)

 You've got my fingers crossed! :)

  Maciej