From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] VGA and laptops
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:37:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000927003748.732D1199ED@mail> (raw)
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:25:45AM -0400, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com said:
> Oops. Another problem with the Toshiba Portégé 3440CT is it has a USB
> floppy so booting the Plan 9 distribution 'straight' would be problematic.
What is the best way to install it in this case? My lack of knowledge forced
me to do some ugly hacks in the kernel and format command to do the job. I
suspect there is much easier way.
Lucho
It's all ugly. Because the BIOS can make the USB floppy available via
the INT13 interface I made a version of the bootstrap that had the necessary
plan9.ini info wired in (i.e. which ether to use). Once that's loaded
it doesn't need the floppy any more and can boot a kernel over the ethernet.
After that it's easy (provided you have a Plan 9 fileserver to talk to).
--jim
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-27 0:37 jmk [this message]
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2000-09-26 20:48 nigel
2000-09-26 18:33 nigel
2000-09-26 18:49 ` Matt
2000-09-26 13:25 jmk
2000-09-26 16:37 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2000-09-26 18:05 ` Matt
2000-09-26 13:23 jmk
2000-09-26 20:29 ` Christopher Nielsen
2000-09-28 11:21 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2000-09-29 4:01 ` rob pike
2000-09-29 16:50 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2000-09-26 9:13 saroj
2000-09-26 13:29 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2000-09-27 10:52 ` Axel Belinfante
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