From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190703260040i303bd0f2wbd69cd2278f60bdd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:40:52 +1000 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti Install In-Reply-To: <62640bfc2607630d56785189592dc940@orthanc.cc.titech.ac.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <62640bfc2607630d56785189592dc940@orthanc.cc.titech.ac.jp> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 31377d08-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 > -- > >