From: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@gmx.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: [9fans] Réf. : [9fans] Re: [9fans] Réf. : Re: [9fans] USB floppies
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:27:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001022132754.A10760@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C125697E.0056196E.00@SNPAR13.dsi.fra.banque.indosuez.com>; from boyd.roberts@ca-indosuez.com on Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:37:08PM +0200
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:37:08PM +0200, boyd.roberts@ca-indosuez.com said:
> Lucho:
>
> > Why don't you try jmk's suggestion booting from the network?
>
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:37:43 -0400, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com said:
> :
> : 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).
>
> <kryten>
> a great idea, sir, except for two minor points: i don't have
> 1) a plan 9 fileserver or 2) another ethernet card in my 35m2 paris
> apartment.
> </kryten>
>
> i do have an ADSL, but that's not gonna help.
You don't need fileserver -- I used my cpu/auth server to mount root from. I
used my Linux box for BOOTP/TFTP to load 9pcdisk.
Lucho
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2000-10-20 15:37 boyd.roberts
2000-10-22 17:27 ` Latchesar Ionkov [this message]
2000-10-23 5:12 ` [9fans] Re: [9fans] " Boyd Roberts
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