From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Latchesar Ionkov To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: <20001022132754.A10760@gmx.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from boyd.roberts@ca-indosuez.com on Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:37:08PM +0200 Subject: [9fans] Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=5B9fans=5D_R=E9f=2E_:_=5B9fans=5D_Re:_=5B9fans=5D_R=E9f?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=2E_:_Re:_=5B9fans=5D_USB_floppies?= Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:27:54 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1be668be-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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). > > > 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. > > > 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