From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9ab217670703191602td5c094awd0dc2efc8d33a5e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:02:02 -0400 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti Install In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9ab217670703191554y3052e2cbo989e39fecfded0e5@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2923cfc2-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2007/3/19, Russ Cox : > > Installing a Venti system with plan9.iso sucks the big one. I hear > > that Russ has magic code which makes it not suck. Can this PLEASE get > > put in so that the next time I do this, I don't have to wait N hours? > > At the moment, you have the choice between slow, stable, tested code > and fast, unstable, less tested code. The slow code is in the distribution. > I'm sorry venti installs are slow, but the new code still has problems > that need to be worked out. Do you have an ISO I can try? > Russ --dho