From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: boyd.roberts@ca-indosuez.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] USB floppies Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:04:20 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 19ea636c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 from what i've read from the code [/sys/src/9/boot/key.c] what i think i'd like to do is create the nvram on the fly in memory or on the primary dos partition. the problem is that you can boot off the floppy, but then it disappears as soon as plan 9 'boots'. from my reading of the code and the doc i see no way to this except by modifying the code. the plan9.ini 'nvram' variable (or whatever it's called) is not used by /sys/src/9/boot/key.c. all those pathnames are hard coded, a thing i really don't like. so, my question is: is what i'm proposing a feasible solution? 'cos i don't follow all the possible ramifications. i have a sneaking suspicion that it has to be on disc (later on during the install) and that /sys/src/9/boot/key.c doesn't know how to create dos files. i could be wrong, so i'm asking. i have a sony vaio (a 505, with no internal peripherals, except for the disc).