From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mike Fletcher <mlf@eecs.tulane.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation mechanism
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:54:39 -0600
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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