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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] the JD project: little tiny liinux that is a driver for
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:24:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <976c08ba1f0a90f29e0bf6259d6cb8a7@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10612201419p3cad2584xaa362a88a6864f43@mail.gmail.com>

> What
> would be very interesting is to not have a root at all, but just boot
> as a terminal from somewhere, but we are not ready yet.

9xen was already bootable as a diskless terminal before the block
device driver was written.  Or do you mean not have a linux root?
In the world of OS-on-top-of-OS you need to disambiguate terms like
"root", "boot", "console" etc because there are too many of them.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-21  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-20 22:19 [9fans] the JD project: little tiny liinux that is a driver for Plan 9, boots in seconds ron minnich
2006-12-20 23:17 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-12-20 23:22   ` David Leimbach
2006-12-21  3:41   ` ron minnich
2006-12-21  9:24 ` Richard Miller [this message]

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