From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10707170929r2b780418o8b2018077ae28206@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:29:41 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] the perpetual disk partition problem In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10707170852g21b535e9o1f60133213177bc1@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9573576a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/17/07, Steve Simon wrote: > > So, question, what are you folks doing to partition disks nowadays > > when 9load has not loaded your kernel? I'm curious. > > You could just boot the live CDROM to install onto a physical disk > and then boot your kernel under lguest and point it at this, rather than > a virtual disk in a linux file. I suspose you could even use Linux dd to copy > this disk to a linux file and then use that. yeah but I want to do the whole thing in lguest, as a test. The boot cd does not help me -- cd is partitioned. I think the question still needs a good answer -- you have a cd and a disk image, you boot plan 9 without benefit of 9load, how do you get #S/sdD0/data set up? you need to write to ctl. What's the sensible way to do this? ron