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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:07:06 +0200
From: dante <subscriptions@posteo.eu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi installer surrogate
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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:
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>> Dear 9ers,
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>> Here is my first contribution.
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>> AFAIK, there is no installer yet for the Rasbperry Pi port.
>> Moreover, the Raspberry Pi can only boot from the one SD card (not=20
>> from USB).
>> This makes the classical installer design (boot from a removable=20
>> device, install on the fixed disk) impractical.
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>> A solution would be to start with a given installation (e.g., Richard=20
>> 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=20
>> the original image);
>> - the installation can be done without the need of an additional=20
>> system
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0(a PC to write the image or even a virtual machine as propo=
sed by=20
>> 9front https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/9pi [1])
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>> The attached script clones a Raspberry Pi Plan9 Fossil installation=20
>> to an SD disk connected via such a USB adapter.
>> If the device is recognised as "sdUXX", call "piclone sdUXX".
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>> 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=20
>> Mr. Miller's image :-).
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>> DISCLAIMER: There might be bugs.
>>=20
>> Kind Regards,
>> Dante
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> Links:
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> [1] https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/9pi