From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:50:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9469B899-5F23-4B81-B253-41D674B1DA91@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79b24bd24fb8efcd52448ae6027517c2@coraid.com>
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On Jan 31, 2009, at 5:33 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> if someone's itching for a project, the installer could use
> a little touch up.
The program to detect where to install from, /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/
mountdist, is good. The only problem seems to be with the plan9.ini
file, /sys/lib/dist/pc/plan9.ini.cd, which specifically asks to boot
from /dev/sdD0. Unless there is a better way to specify "the device
where plan9.ini was found," say $inidev? That would require some
modifications to the plan9.ini parser, am I right?
However, Akshat also said
On Jan 31, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote:
> However, booting into just the Install goes OK
but the plan9.ini.cd behaves the same way in Install as in Boot Live.
Unless there's something I'm missing...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-31 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-31 18:52 Akshat Kumar
2009-01-31 20:05 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-31 22:02 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-31 20:25 ` blstuart
2009-01-31 21:58 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-31 22:33 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-31 22:50 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2009-01-31 22:59 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-01 0:09 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-02-01 0:31 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-01 4:47 ` lucio
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