From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87u1wduiex.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20011102172614.8CF92199B9@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:21:01 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 135309c2-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) writes: > Now, now, be fair. The real problem is that we don't have a USB > driver at boot, we require a floppy disk to install, and your laptop's > floppy drive is USB. There is no dependency on Microsoft operating > systems whatever (though our boot floppy happens to use their > file system format), and what we ``forgot'' was the ability to boot > out of extended partitions that are pretending to be a floppy disk, > which no one else does either. There are some bugs in fdisk's > extended partition table parsing too, but we didn't get far. I'm not trying to be unfair; you did bend over backwards to try and get it working, and sadly it just doesn't. I wasn't trying to poke fun or anything like that. By dependency on Microdreck, I meant the dependency on the filesystem that you mention.