From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:26:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011102172614.8CF92199B9@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
> Sadly, it doesn't run on my laptop. Despite much energy from Russ Cox
> (for which I am grateful) it doesn't install. Some of the reasons for
> the problem include a dependency on Microdreck in the install system
> and forgetting about extended partitions when designing the install
> process.
Now, now, be fair. The real problem is that we don't have a USB
driver at boot, we require a floppy disk to install, and your laptop's
floppy drive is USB. There is no dependency on Microsoft operating
systems whatever (though our boot floppy happens to use their
file system format), and what we ``forgot'' was the ability to boot
out of extended partitions that are pretending to be a floppy disk,
which no one else does either. There are some bugs in fdisk's
extended partition table parsing too, but we didn't get far.
Our lack of USB support is the real problem here. I wish...
Russ
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Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-02 17:26 Russ Cox [this message]
2001-11-02 18:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 10:21 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-05 16:49 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 17:08 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-06 10:23 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 17:34 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-11-06 10:23 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-30 10:15 [9fans] plan 9 nigel
2002-08-30 9:57 Isaac Stern
2001-11-13 10:53 [9fans] Plan 9 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-09 22:39 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-09 12:25 geoff
2001-11-12 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 15:11 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-11-13 0:15 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 11:41 ` Sam Ducksworth
2001-11-13 10:25 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 1:47 okamoto
2001-11-08 15:05 presotto
2001-11-08 14:44 forsyth
2001-11-08 14:02 presotto
2001-11-09 0:25 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-09 10:08 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 17:31 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-12 10:33 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-13 2:10 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 10:34 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 13:07 Bruce Janson
2001-11-09 10:07 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 13:06 rob pike
2001-11-09 10:08 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 18:05 anothy
2001-11-07 17:43 anothy
2001-11-07 17:47 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-07 17:28 Russ Cox
2001-11-08 10:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 19:38 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-09 10:18 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 12:58 rob pike
2001-11-08 10:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 11:00 geoff
2001-11-08 10:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 10:03 forsyth
2001-11-08 10:38 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 1:09 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-06 18:46 anothy
2001-11-07 9:44 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 18:14 forsyth
2001-11-07 9:43 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 18:07 presotto
2001-11-07 9:44 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 16:59 anothy
2001-11-06 17:54 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 13:45 nigel
2001-11-06 13:33 rob pike
2001-11-06 17:53 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 1:14 presotto
2001-11-06 1:30 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-11-06 1:37 ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2001-11-05 21:47 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-05 21:53 ` andrey
2001-11-06 10:31 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 10:43 ` pac
2001-11-05 21:04 rob pike
2001-11-05 21:00 Richard Miller
2001-11-05 18:18 anothy
2001-11-06 1:06 ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2001-11-06 10:31 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-05 17:45 forsyth
2001-11-05 17:44 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-06 10:31 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 13:34 ` Tomas
2001-11-05 15:48 presotto
2001-11-06 10:31 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 17:53 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-11-02 18:36 Russ Cox
2001-11-05 16:49 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 17:21 ` Ian Cooper
2001-11-06 10:30 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-02 17:57 forsyth
2001-11-02 18:22 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-02 13:53 rob pike
2001-11-05 10:20 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-29 21:08 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-05 15:00 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-10-26 15:12 Russ Cox
2001-10-29 10:16 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-10-25 17:52 Russ Cox
2001-10-26 9:23 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-10-26 15:03 ` William Josephson
2001-10-26 20:14 ` Dan Adkins
2001-10-25 12:45 rob pike
2001-10-25 13:47 ` Borja Marcos
2001-10-25 21:52 ` Jim Choate
2001-10-26 8:35 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-25 16:59 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-11-01 9:47 ` Randolph Fritz
2001-11-01 14:18 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-02 9:58 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-02 11:43 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-11-02 12:39 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 14:11 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-11-05 15:13 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 16:30 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 17:37 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 17:42 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 18:04 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 18:30 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 19:58 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-02 15:36 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-02 15:42 ` andrey
2001-11-02 15:54 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-05 15:01 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 15:29 ` Markus Friedl
2001-11-05 15:49 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-06 10:23 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
1998-11-13 8:29 Scott
1998-11-11 21:08 Mats
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