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Subject: Re: [9fans] usb mass storage projections?
From: Richard Miller <rm@hamnavoe.com>
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:55:23 +0000
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> Sorry, I should have been more specific.  I would like to run Plan9 with 
> a usb drive hosting the filesystem.

There is a user-level file server which allows reading and writing of
(some) usb mass storage drives.  In theory it should be possible to
use this as a root filesystem (by starting it in /sys/src/9/boot/local.c
before running the kfs server).  I wouldn't expect performance to be
very satisfactory though.

Booting from usb storage would be much more difficult, because the 9load
program has no usb support.  Do you have a floppy drive or CDROM to read
the kernel and plan9.ini from?

-- Richard