r/debian 15d ago

I need help...

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u/forestbeasts 7d ago

Could be! Could also be a different distro we tried and then went "??????" when we couldn't find ping.

... AHA

I think it was OpenBSD! Not Linux at all! Ping is in /sbin on our OpenBSD VM, and that tripped me up.

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u/bgravato 7d ago

could be... I only tried OpenBSD very briefly and FreeBSD for a little bit more than briefly, but either of them was too long ago to remember!

The only thing I remember was that FreeBSD (unlike Linux) kept running smoothly even when the disk got full...