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From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti Install
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:40:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190703260040i303bd0f2wbd69cd2278f60bdd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62640bfc2607630d56785189592dc940@orthanc.cc.titech.ac.jp>

that's a smart hint.  tho going to the pub while it does its stuff
is tastier. my limbo venti is "format on demand" which seems
more sensible.  who cares if the rest of the arena space contains
crap?  i don't - as long as it's ready for use when needed.

brucee

On 3/26/07, YAMANASHI Takeshi <9.nashi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Installing a Venti system with plan9.iso sucks the big one. I hear
> > > > > > that Russ has magic code which makes it not suck. Can this PLEASE get
> > > > > > put in so that the next time I do this, I don't have to wait N hours?
>
> If you install venti next time, give it a small arena partition.
> 400MB should be fine for the dump right after the installation.
> You can format another bigger partition and add it later.
>
> # am installing venti on 200GB disk now
> --
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-26  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-26  7:29 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2007-03-26  7:40 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2007-03-26  8:23   ` Charles Forsyth
2007-03-26  8:29     ` Bruce Ellis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-26  8:36 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2007-03-26 11:39 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-26 11:49   ` Russ Cox
2007-03-19 22:54 Devon H. O'Dell
2007-03-19 23:00 ` Russ Cox
2007-03-19 23:02   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-03-19 23:06     ` Russ Cox
2007-03-19 23:12       ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-03-19 23:01 ` john

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