* Re: [9fans] Managing without a floppy disk drive
@ 2002-07-31 8:39 jmk
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From: jmk @ 2002-07-31 8:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Wed Jul 31 04:32:45 EDT 2002, nigel@9fs.org wrote:
> Say I had a PC motherboard without a floppy disk drive connector.
> It's got IDE, USB, parallel, ethernet, PCI. However, the ethernet is
> unsupported (yet).
>
> How would I develop the ethernet driver for 9load/9pcdisk?
>
> It does occur to me that I could plug a supported ethernet card
> into the PCI socket, then develop the kernel driver by booting
> it over the ether.
>
> I've not paid attention to how USB floppy based systems (e.g.
> Sony Vaio) are booted. How is this done?
>
> Any other suggestions appreciated.
Plugging a supported ethernet card into the PCI is the easiest
option. Boot from a CD.
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* Re: [9fans] Managing without a floppy disk drive
2002-07-31 8:31 Nigel Roles
@ 2002-07-31 9:11 ` Boyd Roberts
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From: Boyd Roberts @ 2002-07-31 9:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Nigel Roles wrote:
>I've not paid attention to how USB floppy based systems (e.g.
>Sony Vaio) are booted. How is this done?
>
This trickery is done by getting the BIOS to boot the floppy and then to get
plan 9 to use a copy of the floppy on c:
Look at:
http://home.fr.inter.net/boyd/code/plan9/usbflop.html
But I don't think it'll help you in your case.
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* [9fans] Managing without a floppy disk drive
@ 2002-07-31 8:31 Nigel Roles
2002-07-31 9:11 ` Boyd Roberts
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From: Nigel Roles @ 2002-07-31 8:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Say I had a PC motherboard without a floppy disk drive connector.
It's got IDE, USB, parallel, ethernet, PCI. However, the ethernet is
unsupported (yet).
How would I develop the ethernet driver for 9load/9pcdisk?
It does occur to me that I could plug a supported ethernet card
into the PCI socket, then develop the kernel driver by booting
it over the ether.
I've not paid attention to how USB floppy based systems (e.g.
Sony Vaio) are booted. How is this done?
Any other suggestions appreciated.
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