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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: ideal plan9 laptop
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:15:13 +0100
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Russ Cox wrote:
> The whole thing is a crock.

You said it.

In some mad hack last night I put latin-1 support into the kernel
so it's a bit less painful to use [weird LCD xga card stuff so
revert to raw typing qwerty on azerty at rc and ed].

Last trick was [kfs stuff omitted for brevity]:

    9fat:
    cd /n/9fat
    > d9load
    chmod +al d9load
    cp /sys/src/boot/pc/9load d9load
    mv 9load o9load
    mv d9load 9load

and reboot.

It then goes trying to boot a gz'd kernel [thinking it's a floppy
install?] and fails.

To fix the mess I boot from:

    sdCO!9fat!9pcdisk

Enough already :(

I've already written the Makefile from hell on linux today :( :(