Re: [9fans] nvram etc

Re: [9fans] nvram etc

[Russ Cox]

Yeah, I didn't plan far enough ahead to
such situations.  It was a failure of vision.
There should be a way to install off a hard
disk too.  My apologies.  If you want to 
build your own, you've got all the pieces.  :)

Russ

Re: [9fans] nvram etc

[Boyd Roberts]

From: Russ Cox <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>

> If you want to build your own, you've got all the pieces.  :)

maybe i hacked too many kernels to hack another :)

Re: [9fans] nvram etc

[Russ Cox]

If you're talking about the install process,
the only reason it uses an nvram file is so
that there is no prompt for a user name and
password, as would be the case if we had 
used a terminal kernel.  One less thing to
worry about having to explain in the
installation documents.

Once you've installed, the terminal doesn't
use the nvram at all.  I don't really understand
what the problem is.

Russ

Re: [9fans] nvram etc

[Boyd Roberts]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Russ Cox <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>

> Once you've installed, the terminal doesn't
> use the nvram at all.  I don't really understand
> what the problem is.

the problem is when you've got an external USB floppy...

Re: [9fans] problems

[Russ Cox]

	1. My printer's paper tray doesn't hold enough sheets to
	print the manuals. It looks as though, in devlpt.c, that
	outch() doesn't check for Fpe when it finds an error. This
	was encountered when trying to print vol1.ps.

That has always annoyed me.  If you
tell me what the code should be I'll fix it.

Russ

[9fans] nvram etc

[Boyd Roberts]

why does the pc install depend on all this serious auth stuff?
i can understand that you want maintain a small code base, but
from a base level install who cares about all that auth nonsense.

look at kfscmd.

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