On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:16 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> > 2009/8/26 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> > > it contains all the changes from the last 10 days.
> > > should fix all reported problems, except béla's.
> >
> > Could you post the link? I am new to this list and plan9, and i can
> > not find a 9atom.iso, but a plan9.iso.bz2 [1]
> > It would also be helpful for me reading some introductory material, i
> > guess i can find it, but if you know some reference i would appreciate
> > it.
>
> the link is
>         ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2
>         cf819b70c90cedc39e305fb57d38f5df37302f84        Aug 26 09:13
> 9atom.iso.bz2
>
> just a point of clarification.  the purpose of 9atom.iso
> is to help people get going who are having trouble with
> various sata or pata chipsets.  i recommend using
> the standard cd if it works for you.  applying the contrib
> packages to an official cd makes more sense as i hope
> that this one-off cd can go away in the future.
>
> it has different kernels and 9loads than the distribution.
> it also applies the ape strtod fix to awk, and doesn't use
> floating point in venti or fossil to avoid rounding errors.
> you can think of 9atom.iso as plan9.iso.bz2 +
>        contrib quanstro/9load-e820     (binaries only)
>        contrib quanstro/sd             (binaries only)
>        /n/sources/patch/apestrtod              (awk binary only)
>        /n/sources/patch/fossil-sleep-stress
>                                        (venti moded, too)
>
> for my own convienence, there are some kernel differences
> not covered above.  they should be inconsequential.
> but the source to that kernel is here
>        ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/kernel.mkfs.bz2
>
> - erik
>
>
I think there's work going on to use plan 9 to load plan 9 (maybe?) to
replace 9load.  However, is there any chance of getting your 9load in the
mainline if/once people determine it to support more hardware?