From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Strange Plan9 Reinstallation Phenomonon
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 10:14:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a04053008146d9851e5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f85a90156edaadcf2e1a8fe30770179d@comcast.net>
> The `copy distribution' part went like lightning
> and when I rebooted, not only did I have Plan9, but I had the same
> setup I had a couple days before just before the BSD installation.
>
> I've been using the Plan 9 for a little while now, and it seems to be
> working. My question is do you think I can expect this to work, or is
> this a real fluke? I had actually done quite a bit with the FreeBSD:
> building from sources and installing quite a few ports.
I'd run a check on the file system, but it's quite possible.
Plan 9 is small, and it's likely that your BSD setup was carefully
using only a few blocks from each cylinder group and completely
missed it.
Russ
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2004-05-30 15:05 Greg Pavelcak
2004-05-30 15:14 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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