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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Crazy idea... or a new project?
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:40:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01ff01c0566f$e7df3ee0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A1EFBA4.26627FE7@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>

From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>
>
> you only boot twice each time you change your hardware.
> Next time you already have a complete kernel in place.
> 

maybe, but i think you have forgotton a fundemental
design principle:

    no disk, no fan

you _always_ boot across the wire and no you don't
do it like NFS diskless boots.

boot with a generic and then load in the other pieces,
on the fly.

you wouldn't happen to use linux, by chance?




  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-24 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-24 19:05 rob pike
2000-11-24 21:06 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2000-11-24 21:28   ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-24 23:37     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2000-11-24 23:40       ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2000-11-25  1:57         ` Francisco J Ballesteros
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-27  2:36 okamoto
2000-11-27  6:16 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-27  8:21   ` Andy Newman
2000-11-24 23:47 rob pike
2000-11-24 23:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-25 18:52 ` Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian
2000-11-24 22:40 presotto
2000-11-24 22:16 rob pike
2000-11-24  8:37 nemo
     [not found] <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2000-11-24  0:41 ` rob pike
2000-11-24  0:48   ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-24 22:13   ` Scott Schwartz
2000-11-24 22:24     ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-24  0:05 Russ Cox
2000-11-24  0:08 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-23 13:25 Andrew Zubinski
2000-11-23 22:51 ` Richard
2000-11-23 22:55 ` Boyd Roberts

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