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From: Kristian Hahn <kristian@phase-space.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] usb mass storage projections?
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:29:27 -0600
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Thanks for the advice!   My plan was boot from ide and hand off to a 
root filesystem on the usb drive (it's a 'RocketPod').  I'm using a 
older model Inspiron whose BIOS doesn't permit bootfing from usb.  
There's enough space left on its 3G ide drive to accomadate the kernel 
but not enough for the primary filesystem.   Is there a way for me to 
figure out in advace whether my particular drive would work with the 
user-level file server?

-- Kristian


Richard Miller wrote:

>There is a user-level file server which allows reading and writing of
>(some) usb mass storage drives.  In theory it should be possible to
>use this as a root filesystem (by starting it in /sys/src/9/boot/local.c
>before running the kfs server).  I wouldn't expect performance to be
>very satisfactory though.
>
>Booting from usb storage would be much more difficult, because the 9load
>program has no usb support.  Do you have a floppy drive or CDROM to read
>the kernel and plan9.ini from?
>
>-- Richard
>  
>


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