From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:15:53 -0400 From: William Josephson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20080708201553.GA69211@mero.morphisms.net> References: <5a03888bc4077fcac1298b2e80fc34aa@quanstro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Subject: Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: df89e228-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:03:45PM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > I setup every machine on my network to tftpboot (BIOS), and they all > tftpboot a kernel+ramdisk which has everything necessary to startup > lguest/kvm plan9 and passthrough I/O requests to the disk/network. > Admin done. I've found setting up diskless boot with Linux to be a major pain with most of the common distributions. I guess it has been a while since I last looked: how do you make it work reliably with updates without effectively rolling your own distribution?