Re: [9fans] Crazy idea... or a new project?

[Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>]

Boyd Roberts wrote:
> 
>     no disk, no fan
> 
> you _always_ boot across the wire and no you don't
> do it like NFS diskless boots.

for a local boot, I think I could afford a second
boot if I changed something.
but, again, for a regular terminal booting from
the net I agree it´s best to let the server link
the kernel (if you changed hw).

> 
> boot with a generic and then load in the other pieces,
> on the fly.

I just do not like dynamic loading because in the end,
I found I (most of the times) had to rebuild my unix
kernel whenever I changed hw---you know, forgot to
configure an (static) option needed for the new board, or just
got the module out of date wrt the kernel, or just the
hardware was new and there was no module before, ...

> 
> you wouldn't happen to use linux, by chance?

I use plan9 booting from a local disk for almost everything,
and I also use linux. You are right in that
I was thinking along the way I boot the kernel and not
along the way a terminal should boot---otherwise it would
have been kind of obvious to do the link in the server instead
of booting the terminal twice; but I never thought about it.

have a good night. zzZ zz

PS: still laughing because of the p-n-p + n-p-n :-)