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] =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9f._:_[9fans]_Re:_[9fans]_R=E9f._:_Re:_[9fans]_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?USB_floppies?= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:37:08 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a196dd8-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Lucho: > Why don't you try jmk's suggestion booting from the network? On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:37:43 -0400, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com said: : : It's all ugly. Because the BIOS can make the USB floppy available via : the INT13 interface I made a version of the bootstrap that had the necessary : plan9.ini info wired in (i.e. which ether to use). Once that's loaded : it doesn't need the floppy any more and can boot a kernel over the ethernet. : After that it's easy (provided you have a Plan 9 fileserver to talk to). a great idea, sir, except for two minor points: i don't have 1) a plan 9 fileserver or 2) another ethernet card in my 35m2 paris apartment. i do have an ADSL, but that's not gonna help. it's like when i did the 8th edition 'port' to an 11/780, in sydney. we had the code. it's there to be modified so unsupported or broken stuff works. a tu-16 bugfix and a new 512b file-system type springs to mind.