From: forsyth@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] REQ: Info on Plan 9 ISO installation images & Vita Nuova CD
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:16:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000918141429.86910199FE@mail> (raw)
>>Is there any value added in spending $25 on the Vita Nuova CD? Or is
>>it just a plain installation image burned on CD, with no additional
>>applications, etc?
It's a fair question. You get at least the following (`at least'
because I seem invariably to overlook something important).
We didn't just download the images and copy them onto a CD.
Our CD contains the installation images, an updated installation
diskette image, TeX, some extra things provided by Russ Cox (eg,
Moscow ML), and perhaps uniquely to us, an Inferno distribution for
Plan 9 (386) including both binary and Limbo source for the Charon web
browser (including Javascript as broken by other web browsers) and
other applications.
As well as the packed installation images, the contents of the various
Plan 9 and Inferno packages are presented as a complete unpacked file
hierarchy, unpacked on a working Plan 9 system, with updates
installed, and the CD is accompanied by installation notes modified to
tell how to install Plan 9 from that CD, and with some extra
suggestions that we found useful when testing the installation.
The CD was built and written under Plan 9 (fixing some bugs in the CD
software in the process), using a format with extensions peculiar to
Plan 9, and it was tested by doing a full Plan 9 installation on a
several machines with different configurations and video cards to see
that, as far as we could tell, it was usable.
We ship worldwide, subject to certain exclusions
(but those haven't applied to any orders so far).
As an aside, the problems with bootable CD arise not because the installation writes
debug files to the floppy, as cheapbytes suggested, but because bug fixes and some
other changes should be made elsewhere to get it to work properly. After some experiment,
I've fixed the bugs, I know the other changes, but I haven't made them yet.
Obviously once I've made them, cheapbytes can use them too,
because we'll send them back to the Labs.
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2000-09-18 14:16 forsyth [this message]
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2000-09-18 14:30 forsyth
2000-09-18 13:30 Russ Cox
2000-09-18 13:50 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-18 10:47 MoJoJoJo
2000-09-18 16:42 ` Digby Tarvin
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