From: Jacob Todd <jaketodd422@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi installer surrogate
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:49:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB8pEY7zyADk3_jqYwCc_bb5pY=wHrE4Tver_OWA6mdpAT68=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84cf55cc7b078e741f008bc281ffee7e@posteo.de>
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I used dd and the 9front img.
On Aug 12, 2014 5:43 PM, "dante" <subscriptions@posteo.eu> wrote:
> Dear 9ers,
>
> Here is my first contribution.
>
> AFAIK, there is no installer yet for the Rasbperry Pi port.
> Moreover, the Raspberry Pi can only boot from the one SD card (not from
> USB).
> This makes the classical installer design (boot from a removable device,
> install on the fixed disk) impractical.
>
> A solution would be to start with a given installation (e.g., Richard
> Miller's bootable image), use an SD-to-USB adapter and clone the disk.
> This has the following advantages:
> - the new disk can be used at full capacity (not only 2GB or so in the
> original image);
> - the installation can be done without the need of an additional system
> (a PC to write the image or even a virtual machine as proposed by
> 9front https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/9pi)
>
> The attached script clones a Raspberry Pi Plan9 Fossil installation to an
> SD disk connected via such a USB adapter.
> If the device is recognised as "sdUXX", call "piclone sdUXX".
>
> I have no idea where this utility belongs to.
> It is IMHO too specific to be placed under arm/bin.
> For this reason, I attach the file in stead of sending a patch(1).
> I hope it helps and it will find it's way into Plan9 (or at least to Mr.
> Miller's image :-).
>
> DISCLAIMER: There might be bugs.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Dante
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