On Saturday 20 October 2007, William Case wrote: >Hi Gene; > >I was very glad to see your post. Comments below ... > >On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 12:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [snip lengthy repeat] >You make the same point I was trying to make but make it with much more >specificity. Thanks for the flowers. >That the same or similar words have different meanings >when used with Grub and with Linux. That if you are working with Grub >use the Grub meanings; if you are working with Linux use that Operating >Systems vocabulary. That was what I was trying to show by talking of >Grub being a kind of separate, independent operating system. > >It can be hard on a newbie to have to keep Linux 'root' in one >compartment of the brain, while keeping the meaning of Grub 'root' in an >other compartment. But it is not an impossible feat; humans do that >kind of thing all the time. Yup. >It is much simpler to do if you are warned ahead of time that you will >be called upon to play that mental game. Your explanation above would >suffice to give that warning in a manual or info. Unforch, its not IN the man pages in quite that language. [...old sig] >Kept your signature 'cause I love it. Its been there for quite a while. 2-3 years at least. Apropo I think. The point being that the first 3 boxes haven't been all that successfull in recent times. >-- >Regards Bill -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) When you die, you lose a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields
