Re: [9fans] acme/sam junky in need of advice

[Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>]

On 5/9/05, rog@vitanuova.com <rog@vitanuova.com> wrote:
> it's just a standard inferno distribution. (plus a .bat file
> to start up the inferno wm automatically - one line)

I've got the same thing going on my USB key.  It was pretty trivial to
set up, though because I use mine cross-platform it took a minor
amount of extra oomph.

Though the key is formatted FAT32, I think I ended up doing the
installation on either OSX or Linux due to case sensitivity.  Then I
just copied/renamed the appropriate emu binaries for the correct
platforms in the correct places, created batch and shell scripts to
handle the startup and voila.

Since then I've ripped out source/binaries for some of the platforms I
don't use (Solaris), just to recover some space.  Plus, I'm also lazy
and haven't updated it in a while, but it works very well.

I had worked/hoped for a while to get it to auth back to my home box,
import the filesystem, etc. -- kind of an Inferno thin client -- but I
really wanted it all to happen from within the WM, but certain aspects
really wanted authentication before the binds to make everything
friendly.

I also messed around with Inferno hosted on Linux for a while, so I
could just VNC to a full-screen session and just pack around the VNC
client.  Java VNC client would have worked, too, but how many layers
do you really want to add?

I also pack around 9pm on my key, because I find that useful.  My
"butcher box" is currently running Asterisk for a work-related
project, otherwise I'd probably do what everyone else does and just
drawterm home.

Where's that iMac Mini port, so I can just leave a CPU/auth/fileserver
on the bookshelf and be done with it? ;)

-Jack