| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 21 May 2002 14:49:52 -0400 |
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:44:13PM -0400, Mike Leone (on-the-go) wrote: > Correct. They will install RH on a "server" machine for you, but not a > consumer model. (so your PowerEdge can have it, but not your > Dimension/OptiPlex/etc) And in my experience, you don't want them installing it on a server for you either. Witness the stupidity: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 16G 15G 615M 96% / /dev/sda1 30M 13M 16M 44% /boot /dev/sdb1 17G 4.7G 11G 30% /mnt/sdb /dev/sdc1 17G 12G 4.3G 73% /mnt/sdc none 502M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm Yeah, thanks guys, I'll take the "no /usr, big disks mounted on directories off of /mnt" option. (No, I didn't set this machine up initially here; even if I hadn't reinstalled, I'd at least have remounted those to some useful localized mount point. Yes, I have dealt with it by way of sym links. That doesn't mean I like it.) Btw, who the hell came up with this "directories off of /mnt" thing? Is that a RedHat exclusive, or are other distros similarly brain- damaged? The whole point of /mnt is to be a *temporary* mount point, not a directory containing other directories to be mount points. That's fixing a problem that doesn't exist; you can, and should, mount anywhere within the virtual file system. The idea of having more than one (or, in a real stretch, two) disks mounted temporarily is ridiculous. If you need it that much, make a real mount point for it. In any case, this is better than it used to be, when they'd only ever use 4 GBs of your disk, not even labeling the rest, if you requested Linux pre-installed... -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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