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From: Corey <corey@bitworthy.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:32:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908111732.08303.corey@bitworthy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d3530220908102237y3beb0f21u5de6fe245005fc7d@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 10 August 2009 22:37:38 John Floren wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:34 PM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net>
wrote:
> > step 17.
> > it's a good idea to always leave a 9fat menu around on your auth server.
> > if you screw a kernel up, you'll really be proud of your self for it!
> >
> > - erik
>
> To add to this, a quick reading of the plan9.ini man page will show
> you how to set timeouts so you can automatically boot into the 9pccpuf
> kernel, but still have a backup around in case things go pear-shaped.
> It only costs a couple extra seconds at boot but it can make life so
> much easier.
>

Thanks for the heads-up, John - I've included a timeout value on the
plan9.ini menu in the next draft version of the howto.


Cheers,

Corey




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-11  5:00 Corey
2009-08-11  5:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-11  5:37   ` John Floren
2009-08-12  0:32     ` Corey [this message]
2009-08-12  0:40       ` John Floren
2009-08-12  1:08         ` Bruce Ellis
2009-08-12  3:10           ` Charles Forsyth
2009-08-12  3:39             ` Bruce Ellis
2009-08-13 11:05         ` Corey
     [not found] <af64fb3042985ab534a589f034832434@quanstro.net>
2009-08-12  0:27 ` Corey
2009-08-12  0:36   ` erik quanstrom

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