Re: [9fans] Installation mechanism

Re: [9fans] Installation mechanism

[Russ Cox]

that's on my list.  it's easy enough;
maybe it will happen.

Re: [9fans] Installation mechanism

[Mike Fletcher]

While we're talking installation procedures, has anyone
considered a 'partitionless' install similar to what
RedHat and Mandrake linux4win do?

It might attract some users who just can't be bothered to
re-partition their disks.  They'd just end up with a
regular FAT directory called plan9 containing 9fat and two
large disk image files called fs and swap.

Then bootfile=sdC0!plan9!9fat!9pcdisk
 and bootdisk=local!#S/sdC0/plan9/fs
and away you go.

Just a thought.  I'd work on it if I had a clue of where
to start...

-Mike Fletcher
 EECS Dept.
 Tulane University

[9fans] Installation mechanism

[Jim Choate]

I vote for a boot floppy with a CD. It's reasonably easy to get a 1G or
less image (not to mention network installs). It's be nice if the CD were
bootable itself.

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Mike Haertel wrote:

> >The startup kernel for next release isn't going to fit on a floppy if we
> >don't change things.  We're (jmk and I mostly) considering suggestions
> >for what to do.
> >[possibilities elided]
> >- ???
>
> Why not split it into two floppies: one containing the kernel proper,
> that prompts you to insert the 2nd floppy containing the file system
> and all the user level programs.


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