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Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep)
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 06:54:52 +0200
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> that's my guess and i've got a USB one.  on windows it looks like
> a disk, but i'm damn sure there's a lot of guff in there to make it
> look like a disk.  i can't imagine it to be pretty.

I ought to wait until I've had a chance to get my wits about me, but
what needs to be mentioned is that I have two distinct issues here: a
"compact flash" card (thanks, forsyth) and a USB-based reader-writer
(with four slots, by the way, I have no idea what to do with three of
them).

I can't use the CF card under Plan 9 just yet, nor the USB
reader-writer, but I want the CF to have a bootable Plan 9 image on
it.  Ideally, I'd like to choose between Plan 9 and NetBSD, as the
Plan 9 features I want are still being developed (USB, graphics etc.)
whereas NetBSD already supports them.

I haven't yet exhausted all the possibility, nor really identified and
studied them.  But I have been given plenty of information from
contributors on the list and I'm glad that the information is being
archived as I'm sure other will also benefit from the advice.

++L

PS: In fact, I _can_ now write the CF card on the thin client, where
it is presently seen as a somewhat weird IDE disk (I'll post the
details elsewhere just for curiosity, I think something needs fixing
in disk/fdisk), but I'm reluctant to do so as it's the only device and
if I overwrite its current configuration booting Plan 9 the thin
clients may become an impossibility.  Once I'm more confident, I'll
try that path.  For the time being, I want a somewhat less risky
approach.