From: staal1978@gmail.com (Jens Staal)
Subject: [9fans] 9vx instability
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:43:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED23E9E.5020508@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADErNDthOBS0sRc=1GJ25HBFYWbV-aayz6rT5SWdijkTYRSDTA@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/27/11 14:39, yy wrote:
> 2011/11/21 Jens Staal<staal1978 at gmail.com>:
>> What I would like to know is if you can boot a plan9 system from iso via 9vx
>> as "persistent" partition whereas changes are saved to another directory (so
>> basically setting up a union mount between the iso and a directory) -
>> alternatively specifying an alternative path for $home using 9vx booting
>> from an iso.
>>
> I've written a small script to help with this. From the comments:
>
> # Usage: 9vxi [9vx options]
> # If set, $localroot is used as root,
> # and $home as the home directory.
> # If localroot is not set. search for it:
> # first in the cwd, then at $HOME.
> # initrc is ignored. Other options are
> # just passed to 9vx.
> #
> # If found, $home/lib/profile is used,
> # else a default profile is supplied.
>
> If you have a plan9.iso file in your $HOME directory, running 9vxi
> without arguments should be enough to boot from that iso file with an
> usable environment: $HOME is used as your home directory, ramdisk
> provides a writable /tmp and the plumber uses glenda's rules. If you
> need something fancier (for example, binding a writable source tree
> from a sysfromiso repository), create a lib/profile file.
>
>
Awesome! Thanks!
I will look into it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-27 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-21 8:31 Anton
2011-11-21 8:39 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2011-11-21 9:08 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-11-21 9:23 ` Anthony Martin
2011-11-21 21:13 ` yy
2011-11-21 11:01 ` yy
2011-11-21 11:17 ` Jens Staal
2011-11-21 11:56 ` yy
2011-11-21 12:14 ` Anton
2011-11-21 19:58 ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-11-21 14:46 ` Sergey Kish
2011-11-21 14:51 ` Sergey Kish
2011-11-21 15:04 ` Jens Staal
2011-11-21 15:49 ` ron minnich
2011-11-21 16:51 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-11-21 17:09 ` Anton
2011-11-21 17:26 ` Jens Staal
2011-11-21 18:24 ` ron minnich
2011-11-21 18:35 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-11-21 18:39 ` ron minnich
2011-11-21 18:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-21 19:02 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-11-21 19:18 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-21 20:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
[not found] ` <CAJSxfmLDrF5b_MxK7GW0jMRuywo88iDGdsH2ZBPbzzcsTQ1i9Q@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-21 20:32 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-21 21:59 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-11-21 22:44 ` Anton
2011-11-21 23:02 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-11-24 16:40 ` Yaroslav
2011-11-24 16:56 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-24 17:56 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-11-24 18:51 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-11-25 3:30 ` Lucio De Re
2011-11-25 4:12 ` Stanley Lieber
2011-11-25 6:18 ` Lucio De Re
[not found] ` <CAJSxfmLDrF5b_MxK7GW0jMRuywo88iDGdsH2ZBPbzzcsTQ1i9Q@>
[not found] ` <CAJSxfm+TZvGdfMGR1smusVAqJK9w=qtUHkXr8OGc5cuZ9VtrdQ@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-21 23:07 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 13:56 ` Charles Forsyth
[not found] ` <CAOEdRO10gkM7SwLRLyscLYENH=BfS8++mFNiRR6VnuAiRpZcag@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-24 18:25 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-24 18:52 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-24 19:01 ` Stanley Lieber
2011-11-25 3:37 ` Lucio De Re
2011-11-25 4:21 ` Stanley Lieber
2011-11-25 19:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-11-24 20:39 ` cinap_lenrek
2011-11-24 20:45 ` ron minnich
2011-11-24 21:21 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-25 2:02 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-26 23:30 ` Uriel
[not found] ` <CAK=G1Tj4o_ysw_-dh8EQwWHkSSc6v=ga8E4Z331DasO13WNr_A@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-26 23:40 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-26 23:57 ` Jacob Todd
2011-11-27 3:27 ` Lucio De Re
2011-11-27 4:26 ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-11-27 4:32 ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-11-27 14:23 ` Dan Cross
2011-11-27 19:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-27 20:44 ` Dan Cross
2011-11-27 23:35 ` hiro
2011-11-28 12:02 ` Dennis den Brok
2011-11-28 1:45 ` Anthony Martin
2011-11-27 18:34 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-11-27 19:01 ` Stanley Lieber
2011-11-27 19:39 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-11-27 2:40 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-11-28 1:14 ` Andrés Domínguez
2011-11-25 3:46 ` Lucio De Re
2011-11-25 4:35 ` Stanley Lieber
2011-11-25 3:33 ` [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability) Lucio De Re
2011-11-25 3:54 ` Stanley Lieber
2011-11-25 4:14 ` Lucio De Re
2011-11-25 6:05 ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-11-25 6:22 ` Lucio De Re
2011-11-25 6:45 ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-11-25 7:52 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-25 8:06 ` Lucio De Re
2011-11-25 10:15 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-25 13:25 ` Lucio De Re
2011-11-25 13:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-11-25 13:34 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-11-25 14:22 ` Lucio De Re
2011-11-25 14:26 ` Lucio De Re
2011-11-25 14:38 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <CAHfqX-pxHzzHQdf2Rg=Fo+yKOSxYVX7UdU7j4hQJKYS2c7e4tQ@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-25 13:55 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-25 16:56 ` Stanley Lieber
[not found] ` <CAHfqX-ot8PRUNW5aH+5zKFQXvd_O+otfE4pBS0HfjfD6-6HQSA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-25 22:42 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-25 23:21 ` Steve Simon
2011-11-25 23:39 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-27 14:52 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-11-26 2:09 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-24 20:35 ` [9fans] 9vx instability ron minnich
[not found] ` <CAOw7k5ijEpAGbQgbG94K3bCfOjTLGCKACRZBj60=-ra57FiXAg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-21 16:53 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-27 13:39 ` yy
2011-11-27 13:43 ` Jens Staal [this message]
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