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From: <vdharani@infernopark.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] standalone cpu server wiki
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:00:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3390.192.11.226.116.1074805227.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2dde5dcaa34b4de39b7aaa3dc01027a@plan9.ucalgary.ca>

hi,
> the fact that you need another fs to boot from in order to fix fossil
> has been complained about before, but nobody has mentioned yet
> that (fossil or no fossil) Plan 9 gives you a much more exciting (and
> novel!) way of fixing things -- next time your fossil crashes send me
> an email and I'll give you an account on ucalgary.ca where you can boot
> your system as a terminal and fix your fossil in about 15
> minutes flat.  in fact, you can fix pretty much anything from
> everywhere as long as you have a decent 9pcdisk kernel to start with.
that sounds really cool!!

may be it is the documentation that kills. for an experienced 9fan, it is a
good reference material. for someone new, there are many surprises. the
document is good as individual parts, but they dont seem to fit together. i
feel something is missing. if someone who is new tries to install using the
fossil method, i am sure he will be locked up somewhere.

thanks
dharani





  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-22 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-22  1:53 James Horey
2004-01-22  2:20 ` mirtchov
2004-01-22  8:27   ` vdharani
2004-01-22  5:58     ` mirtchov
2004-01-22 21:00       ` vdharani [this message]
2004-01-23  5:00       ` Jack Johnson
2004-01-23  5:33         ` mirtchov
2004-01-23 11:52         ` a
2004-01-22 16:27     ` David Presotto
2004-01-22 21:19       ` vdharani
2004-01-22 19:13         ` David Presotto
2004-01-22 19:14         ` David Presotto
2004-01-23  2:02           ` James Horey
2004-01-23  2:27       ` okamoto
2004-01-23  5:17       ` Jack Johnson

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