From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fileserver boot
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:53:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a05031111532ea566c1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ab810a1c470cec2f0d9a36ddadb1173@collyer.net>
http://thinkersleague.law.umich.edu/files/WPGames/WFFNPRUF.htm
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:16:04 -0800, geoff@collyer.net <geoff@collyer.net> wrote:
> er, make that "doesn't need a floppy".
>
> the two things that live on floppy or ide are
> plan9.ini and the nvram file, which contains
> several things, notably the bootes password and
> the name of the device on which to find the config
> block (e.g., h0, w0), which in turn holds what Ken
> called the `wifnproof' (if I've remembered the spelling)
> configuration string. once the file server has
> started serving files, the floppy (if any) can
> be safely removed until the next boot. i don't
> think that this is yet documented.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-11 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-11 15:35 Martin Montero
2005-03-11 15:44 ` Russ Cox
2005-03-11 19:01 ` geoff
2005-03-11 19:16 ` geoff
2005-03-11 19:53 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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2005-03-10 19:33 Martin Montero
2005-03-11 9:07 ` Matthias Teege
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