From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] WORM recomendations? From: "rob pike" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010117041654.8888719A07@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:16:34 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4e4719fc-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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