From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] more silly fossil questions From: plan9@blueyonder.co.uk In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:08:37 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: da01898a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi, I reached exactly this stage a couple of months ago and my question was answered by people going, yes, build your kernel to use fossil/venti just as it says in the wiki. It may say there that is is complicated, but that is because it is more complicated than booting off a CD, not because it is challenging. The recipe given in the wiki is pretty easy to follow. Once you've got that up and running, everything just behaves like you want it to. Apart from the fact that changes in your configuration and pulling updates becomes a bit of a hassle, as you have to recompile, reinstall your kernel and reboot. I haven't yet gone through this process myself. But considering all the changes of late I probably will have to soon. Incidentally, how are people backing up their venti? I don't have a CD writer on my cpu/fossil server, but I do have one on my terminal. Can I 'just' use rdarena on the terminal? Probably not, I guess I need to do some reading. Anyway, stories of how to do backups and restores would be much appreciated. Robby