From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <13426df10705231149q2830dbcepe3251b4b3c9fadf7@mail.gmail.com> References: <13426df10705231149q2830dbcepe3251b4b3c9fadf7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie question Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:58:56 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 715a5676-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As I said - my first pass at power64 needed /power64. But this should be infrequent. Paul On May 23, 2007, at 11:49 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On 5/23/07, Fabrizio Colalucci wrote: >> Hi all, >> I'm a newbie in Plan 9. >> My problem is that I need to copy some files to the root ("/") >> directory, but when I try that, the system returns: > > we're all wondering why you need / > > a bad idea in general > > what is the reason? > > thanks > > ron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGVI7xpJeHo/Fbu1wRAhc+AJ9VGdtjJ9u034e6we+NixmsQWtFKQCdE4vb 5Qyf/V3dF3NnKOageC2pTYQ= =Hide -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----