Re: [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 16, Issue 19

[Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>]

> Just wondering, is there any reason why there're different kernels and
> why one cannot just install from the live version? Maybe some TODO
> where one could volunteer as well?

They're different kernels because one tries to mount its root
file system from a CD and the other from a bundled-in
compressed tar file (essentially).  That requires different
pieces of code, and both don't fit into a kernel destined for
a floppy disk (9pcflop.gz).  

There's no reason the live CD can't do an install except that
no one has bothered to implement it.  

There's no real TODO list, though in general I'd rather have
people volunteering to work on drivers or ssh2 or other things
useful to the day-to-day operation of the system instead of
endless tweaking of the installer.

Russ

Russ