From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 as Unix client?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:32:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c846427c1770f5f063c1134f278d89bc@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
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Assuming XP is just win2000 with a facelift, you should be able to use
the XP loader to boot plan 9.
Copy the first block of the partition into a windows file:
dd -if /dev/sdC0/9fat -bs 512 -count 1 -of /n/a:/bootsect.p9
There must be a windows way to do this but I dinna know.
Boot windows and copy the file to c:
edit window's boot.ini (a hidden, protected, system, super secret file)
to add plan9 as a menu option.
c:\bootsect.p9 = "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"
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From: "John E. Barham" <jbarham@jbarham.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 as Unix client?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 01:25:43 -0700
Message-ID: <01a701c2685a$f86bb9b0$540da8c0@HPN5415>
> > > lots of people here use u9fs (i'm not booted in fbsd right now so i
can't
> > > tell you whether it's in ports) to mount a freebsd system remotely.
> > >
> > > http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/plan9/info/u9fs
> >
> > It's not in ports, but it compiles with ease. I use a FreeBSD 4.5 box as
a
> [snip rest]
>
> Point me to a place on the net to get the source and I'll whip up a
> port. (If the fact that I don't know where to get the source seems
> stupid, my bad, I'm really new with this).
>
> --
> Munish Chopra
I'm not sure that given the Plan 9 license that the u9fs code can just be
posted "on the net".
However, Andrey helpfully pointed me to the u9fs man page at
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/u9fs which says that the u9fs
source is in /sys/src/cmd/unix/u9fs, which I grabbed from my install CD. It
compiled without a hitch on my FreeBSD box (although I haven't yet had a
chance to test it).
Which leads me to my next question: At the end of the install I didn't make
a boot floppy (I forgot that my XP partition isn't FAT) and wonder what the
best way to boot my new 9 partition is?
next reply other threads:[~2002-09-30 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-30 12:32 presotto [this message]
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2002-10-01 6:22 nigel
2002-10-01 2:09 Russ Cox
2002-09-30 23:57 presotto
2002-09-30 23:49 presotto
2002-09-30 22:40 Russ Cox
2002-09-30 23:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-09-30 18:52 nigel
2002-09-30 18:04 Russ Cox
2002-09-30 21:38 ` John E. Barham
2002-09-30 8:23 nigel
2002-09-30 6:46 nigel
2002-09-30 7:21 ` Munish Chopra
2002-09-30 8:25 ` John E. Barham
2002-09-30 6:23 John E. Barham
2002-09-30 6:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
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