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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:37:49 +0100
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9
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Ok, I'm interested but I only have a 1GB one, so I'll bring it anyways
and we'll see what magic you can do with it. ;)

Cheers,
Mathieu.

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:52:37PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 12:39 PM, Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> > Any requirements on those sticks other than size?  Is there a
> > difference between bootable and non bootable?
> >
> 
> I did not think that bootable was "special". I hope not. If you can
> put an MBR on it, it should work.
> 
> The size is really the size of sdC0, which is 1.6 or so GB. I don't
> like venti-less plan 9 systems.
> 
> Another way to shrink down is to use an image we have on there that is
> a true terminal, and mounts root from somewhere on the net. This is
> pretty unbearable to use, but maybe cfs makes it all better?
> 
> So you can technically get this back to 512MB if you toss the sdC0
> image on the flash, but you may not like the result.
> 
> Be sure your laptop can boot from USB. That's needed. If we get
> desperate I guess we can burn a boot CD. Or, transfer the image to
> HDD.
> 
> So this is not going to be me up there with powerpoint. It's pretty
> hands on. And Aki is going to help, right, Aki?
> 
> Also Aki and I are going to show a WIP we think you all will like. Aki
> doesn't know that yet. Oh, oops, well, now he does :-)
> 
> ron

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