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[boyd.roberts]

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).

<kryten>
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.
</kryten>

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.

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[Latchesar Ionkov]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:37:08PM +0200, boyd.roberts@ca-indosuez.com said:
> 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).
>
> <kryten>
> 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.
> </kryten>
>
> i do have an ADSL, but that's not gonna help.

You don't need fileserver -- I used my cpu/auth server to mount root from. I
used my Linux box for BOOTP/TFTP to load 9pcdisk.

	Lucho

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[Boyd Roberts]

From: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@gmx.net>

> You don't need fileserver -- I used my cpu/auth server to mount root from. I
> used my Linux box for BOOTP/TFTP to load 9pcdisk.

can you read?  I DON'T HAVE ANOTHER SERVER.