From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Message-id: <9469B899-5F23-4B81-B253-41D674B1DA91@mac.com> From: Pietro Gagliardi To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: <79b24bd24fb8efcd52448ae6027517c2@coraid.com> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:50:23 -0500 References: <79b24bd24fb8efcd52448ae6027517c2@coraid.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8fc7f72e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkmE1bAACgkQuv7AVNQDs+wS5gCfXAiX0cvYh66avVFuCQ1kwdhx BTEAnA7acRmK+X/F5kw435BQVUeSbC/f =zOym -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----