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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Managing without a floppy disk drive
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 04:39:20 -0400
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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.