From: Will Rose cwr@crash.cts.com
Subject: [9fans] DVD drive support?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:24:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000327082404.vx40X9XUT01x4NyE9z7L73pzgl7mKZU9mPbb6wsyCvE@z> (raw)
Douglas A. Gwyn <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote:
: Bengt Kleberg wrote:
:> > Anyway, I would *sure* like Plan 9 on x86 to honor the standard
:> > disk partitioning scheme, instead of living in "empty space".
:> Actually, it is quite neat. Ie means that it is possible to have 5 OSs installed,
:> despite the standard 4 partitions is max.
: You can use multiple disks in such a case.
: There really isn't any excuse for Plan 9 on x86 not cooperating
: with the partitioning scheme used by *all* other x86 OSes,
: including several flavors of Unix.
I started work on this when Plan 9 was first released to the outside
world, but never got very far. It doesn't actually seem too difficult,
and would be a considerable convenience. If I bring up a Plan 9 system
again I'll probably have another shot.
Will
cwr@cts.com
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