From: dante <subscriptions@posteo.eu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi installer surrogate
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:07:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <037c97c0d96fa196ba346b20dae55abb@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB8pEY7zyADk3_jqYwCc_bb5pY=wHrE4Tver_OWA6mdpAT68=Q@mail.gmail.com>
You got a huge 2GB disk.
Moreover, you probably needed an additional PC.
Cheers!
On 12.08.2014 23:49, Jacob Todd wrote:
> I used dd and the 9front img.
> On Aug 12, 2014 5:43 PM, "dante" <subscriptions@posteo.eu> wrote:
>
>> Dear 9ers,
>>
>> Here is my first contribution.
>>
>> AFAIK, there is no installer yet for the Rasbperry Pi port.
>> Moreover, the Raspberry Pi can only boot from the one SD card (not
>> from USB).
>> This makes the classical installer design (boot from a removable
>> device, install on the fixed disk) impractical.
>>
>> A solution would be to start with a given installation (e.g., Richard
>> Miller's bootable image), use an SD-to-USB adapter and clone the disk.
>> This has the following advantages:
>> - the new disk can be used at full capacity (not only 2GB or so in
>> the original image);
>> - the installation can be done without the need of an additional
>> system
>> (a PC to write the image or even a virtual machine as proposed by
>> 9front https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/9pi [1])
>>
>> The attached script clones a Raspberry Pi Plan9 Fossil installation
>> to an SD disk connected via such a USB adapter.
>> If the device is recognised as "sdUXX", call "piclone sdUXX".
>>
>> I have no idea where this utility belongs to.
>> It is IMHO too specific to be placed under arm/bin.
>> For this reason, I attach the file in stead of sending a patch(1).
>> I hope it helps and it will find it's way into Plan9 (or at least to
>> Mr. Miller's image :-).
>>
>> DISCLAIMER: There might be bugs.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Dante
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/9pi
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-12 21:41 dante
2014-08-12 21:49 ` Jacob Todd
2014-08-12 22:07 ` dante [this message]
2014-08-12 22:10 ` Jacob Todd
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