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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> that is a ghastly idea.  boot twice?  look, one of
> the _features_ of a plan 9 terminal is that it
> boots in about a second, well i'm talking about
> a gnot.

you only boot twice each time you change your hardware.
Next time you already have a complete kernel in place.

If you boot from the net, I think I prefer the dhcp idea.

And in any case, the real problem is that of "p-n-p" (as
Presotto said), and
I have no clue about how to do it right on a PC.