Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

[John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Corey<corey@bitworthy.net> wrote:
> On Monday 10 August 2009 22:37:38 John Floren wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Thanks for the heads-up, John - I've included a timeout value on the
> plan9.ini menu in the next draft version of the howto.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Corey
>

You're welcome, but I do think we'd all be better served if you
located specific portions of the wiki page that need work and clarify
them, rather than forking off another very similar page. Or update the
wiki page and put a link to your document at the bottom.

Just a thought

John
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