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From: jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com
Subject: Disc partitions revisited
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:41:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950922144144.pz6ku2DU9jdS3BSXb4uQOpsGmNcdw7ZhcoWeZRnS1BM@z> (raw)

	> Any reason not to have record in partition table for plan 9 file
	> system? May be installation of plan 9 is the point of no return? :-}

Because we didn't think of it when we started, we didn't know anything about PCs.
MS-DOS is just a fancy boot-ROM to get the terminal booted and connected to a fileserver.

Trying to shoe-horn partition management in now is awkward, but we're working on it.
If only installing Linux didn't keep trashing my OS/2 partition and my PC didn't
disappear all this week for UnixExpo, and my CD-ROM drive didn't die and I wasn't
being exiled to Bellcore and...






             reply	other threads:[~1995-09-22 14:41 UTC|newest]

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1995-09-22 14:41 jmk [this message]
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1995-09-22 14:16 Nickolay

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