From: Mike Fletcher <mlf@eecs.tulane.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation mechanism
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:54:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1011113164316.9343C-100000@proteus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011113164052.1019W-100000@einstein.ssz.com>
While we're talking installation procedures, has anyone
considered a 'partitionless' install similar to what
RedHat and Mandrake linux4win do?
It might attract some users who just can't be bothered to
re-partition their disks. They'd just end up with a
regular FAT directory called plan9 containing 9fat and two
large disk image files called fs and swap.
Then bootfile=sdC0!plan9!9fat!9pcdisk
and bootdisk=local!#S/sdC0/plan9/fs
and away you go.
Just a thought. I'd work on it if I had a clue of where
to start...
-Mike Fletcher
EECS Dept.
Tulane University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-13 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-13 19:58 [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on presotto
2001-11-13 20:14 ` William Josephson
2001-11-13 21:39 ` Mike Haertel
2001-11-13 22:42 ` [9fans] Installation mechanism Jim Choate
2001-11-13 22:54 ` Mike Fletcher [this message]
2001-11-13 22:54 ` [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on George Michaelson
2001-11-14 0:19 ` William Josephson
2001-11-13 23:19 ` [9fans] Startup kernel thoughts Chris Hollis-Locke
2001-11-13 22:57 [9fans] Installation mechanism Russ Cox
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