Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

[ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>]

Nothing prevents anyone from using 9fat or building on or changing
iruatas work. It is there so go forth and hack. What is nice is his
new pbs goes to 32 bit mode right away so hacking is easier than
before.

Ron

On 8/27/09, Federico G. Benavento <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
> the problem comes when you just can't boot the CD!
>
> last month when erik and I got Plan 9 booting on this machine
> it was really convenient just to be able to copy 9load to a
> fat partition while I was running windows, reboot and see if
> it worked, I didn't even tried to load a kernel at that point
> because 9load didn't even see the disks.
>
> so, yes, 9fat helped, not because the kernel or Plan 9 lived there
> but because I could just copy the loader (9load) really fast.
>
> I talked some weeks ago about this with iru, because I really didn't
> see the point in getting rid of 9fat.
>
> I could achieve the same as I did by doing "copy 9load E:" on windows
> with this new approach, but I'd need to boot some linux live CD
> and dd my way out to put the new loader there which I'll be too
> hacky and I'd probably need a version of prepdisk for linux
> on that live cd as well, if I got it right.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Tim Newsham<newsham@lava.net> wrote:
>>> i have found it convienent to be able to update a kernel
>>> from linux, osx, windows.  i would imagine this is important
>>> for vm solutions, too.  do you think it's preferable to build
>>> a live cd for this including the little bit prepared in another
>>> os?  i've found live cds to be pretty annoying to maintain.
>>
>> Can you explain the "VM solutions" point further?
>>
>> The current plan 9 install CD is already a live CD.  I don't imagine this
>> places an extra burden on whoever maintains it. Once you have a live CD
>> that
>> works with your system (ie. the same one you installed with), you don't
>> really need to update it unless you change to a new filesystem not
>> supported
>> by the CD.
>>
>>> - erik
>>
>> Tim Newsham
>> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
>>
>>
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> Federico G. Benavento
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