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From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation on disk-less laptops
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:58:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfmLZVkKg65vYmiiDndic3LfLj5xAnMZmUfpBQ18e8fvA0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <623e719d-fb92-4a91-82c1-585358f61fc5@googlegroups.com>

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the simplest is to setup an auth+fs box (could be a VM), and then PXE or
bootp/tftp boot a diskless "terminal" kernel.  if the device is to run a
"cpu" kernel, then some sort of nvram is needed to hold the host owner's
credentials.


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:02 AM, faif <faifgnu@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have seen some tips here and there about installing Plan 9 on a
> disk-less computer but are there any guides? I have an eee pc 1000h and I
> am interested in installing Plan 9. Whether it will be the standard
> installation, 9atom, or something else is not very important. I just want
> to try Plan 9 on a non-vm environment.
>
>

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-15 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-15  9:02 faif
2013-07-15 16:24 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2013-07-15 17:58 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]

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