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user doesn't have to know ANYTHING about the underlining hardware whether a
disk partition is mounted from scsi, IDA, RAid for a network drive from
China.  They all look like the seemless file system that they should.

For what its worth, the BSD slicing system perplees me.  The Linux
primary partition system is something inherited for some twisted reason
from DOS.

> 
> And as far as package management goes for kernels, I gave up on compiling my
> own kernels a long time ago. I found that they were just not worth the
> effort for my own uses.  When apt (and now aptitude) install new kernels,
> they both keep the old kernels and then put the newest kernel at the top of
> the grub.conf so if the new kernel happens to panic, or just won't boot
> properly I can just reboot and pick the next kernel on the list. As far as
> there being issues with pre-packaged kernels, the only ones I've had have
> been with obscure and antiquated hardware. I have a DEC Alpha running Debian
> Sarge and the initrd had been pointing to the wrong place to find the /
> partition. I don't remember what the workaround was, but shortly thereafter
> there was an update to the installer and it Just Worked(tm) after that. Your
> mileage may vary.
> 
> -Mike
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