From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:42:58 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 16, Issue 19 In-Reply-To: <89d1e7b8050812103328828fa9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050812165555.4FD5018EAA@mail.cse.psu.edu> <42FCD9CE.7030406@dominique-werner.com> <89d1e7b8050812103328828fa9@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 776c55d4-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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). =20 There's no reason the live CD can't do an install except that no one has bothered to implement it. =20 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