From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10711281252j7d1e9a2k8e506e1f41d491a3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:52:37 -0800 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10711281141v688aa697j23caa25130f92da@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0df8689c-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 28, 2007 12:39 PM, Sape Mullender wrote: > Any requirements on those sticks other than size? Is there a > difference between bootable and non bootable? > I did not think that bootable was "special". I hope not. If you can put an MBR on it, it should work. The size is really the size of sdC0, which is 1.6 or so GB. I don't like venti-less plan 9 systems. Another way to shrink down is to use an image we have on there that is a true terminal, and mounts root from somewhere on the net. This is pretty unbearable to use, but maybe cfs makes it all better? So you can technically get this back to 512MB if you toss the sdC0 image on the flash, but you may not like the result. Be sure your laptop can boot from USB. That's needed. If we get desperate I guess we can burn a boot CD. Or, transfer the image to HDD. So this is not going to be me up there with powerpoint. It's pretty hands on. And Aki is going to help, right, Aki? Also Aki and I are going to show a WIP we think you all will like. Aki doesn't know that yet. Oh, oops, well, now he does :-) ron