From: John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:37:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d3530220908102237y3beb0f21u5de6fe245005fc7d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f087ed243d2df940fb78d48e812eb44e@quanstro.net>
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:34 PM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> step 17.
> it's a good idea to always leave a 9fat menu around on your auth server.
> if you screw a kernel up, you'll really be proud of your self for it!
>
> - erik
To add to this, a quick reading of the plan9.ini man page will show
you how to set timeouts so you can automatically boot into the 9pccpuf
kernel, but still have a backup around in case things go pear-shaped.
It only costs a couple extra seconds at boot but it can make life so
much easier.
John
--
"Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-11 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 5:00 Corey
2009-08-11 5:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-11 5:37 ` John Floren [this message]
2009-08-12 0:32 ` Corey
2009-08-12 0:40 ` John Floren
2009-08-12 1:08 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-08-12 3:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-08-12 3:39 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-08-13 11:05 ` Corey
[not found] <af64fb3042985ab534a589f034832434@quanstro.net>
2009-08-12 0:27 ` Corey
2009-08-12 0:36 ` erik quanstrom
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