From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] WORM recomendations?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:16:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010117041654.8888719A07@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
I am typing on a machine with a USB floppy. To get it* working, JMK
hacked a special 9load that could talk to the on-board ethernet.
Using our existing Plan 9 environment, we used that to establish a
beachhead, using the BIOS's hacks to get the floppy running, then
abandoning the floppy by wiring some stuff into the special 9load. It
was a little magical. The critical part is that the floppy booted
9pc, getting everything over the network. Then I used the
floppy-booting system and RSC's distro stuff to get the hard disk
reworked into a Plan 9 world. Plan 9 still has no idea how to run the
USB on this machine. I probably don't have the first steps of this
procedure quite right, since I wasn't around when JMK did them, but
the point is that we needed an existing Plan 9 environment to get over
the problem of having a USB floppy.
It's a Toshiba 3440CT.
-rob
* the machine, not the floppy
next reply other threads:[~2001-01-17 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-17 4:16 rob pike [this message]
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2001-01-18 21:08 Russ Cox
2001-01-18 22:07 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-18 22:08 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-18 22:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-18 23:10 ` matt heath
2001-01-18 23:17 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-18 23:24 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-17 4:55 okamoto
2001-01-17 2:15 okamoto
2001-01-17 1:52 okamoto
2001-01-17 2:04 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-18 16:12 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2001-01-18 20:35 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-18 20:55 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2001-01-18 21:00 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 20:55 jmk
2001-01-16 19:18 Richard Miller
2001-01-17 3:07 ` Eric Dorman
2001-01-16 18:25 jmk
2001-01-16 17:58 rob pike
2001-01-16 18:08 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 15:13 rob pike
2001-01-16 14:59 nigel
2001-01-16 17:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 22:06 ` William K. Josephson
2001-01-16 14:39 rob pike
2001-01-16 14:29 forsyth
2001-01-16 14:06 Ed
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