[9fans] Looking good...

[Lucio de Re lucio@proxima.alt.za]

I now have a Plan 9 file server (don't laugh, it's a 386DX40 with 8Meg
of RAM and the SONY Magneto-Optical drive - sadly, the 2Gig ST12400N I
nearly got working fell off my desk and is now departed) that works.

I managed to test a combination of "mkfs | mkext" to copy part of the
CDROM to the 280Meg MO disk, and I'd now like to be more selective
about what I put on there while at the same time using the
"_conform.map" file to rename files correctly.

Steve's script to do this needs "find" which is a utility Plan 9 lacks
(I presume for good cause) and I'm at a loss on how to replace its
functionality (I assume I'm not seeing the wood for the trees).
Unfortunately, this puts me in a bit of a quandary: on the one hand I
haven't enough space to use the installation diskette to upload the CD
in its entirety (and get the names translated in the process) and I
don't know how to get the names translated (other than by manually
searching through the destination directory) if I generate the disk by
hand.

I'll not be offended if someone rubs my nose into some obvious
documentation I have not yet read, I thought I'd been through all the
necessary information, but there's always something I overlooked or
seem not to know about.
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Lucio de Re (lucio@proxima.alt.za)
Disclaimer: I'm working at getting my opinions to agree with me.