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From: Jonadab the Unsightly One <jonadab@bright.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
Date: Mon,  5 Nov 2001 16:49:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wkady1z1s5.fsf@jonadab.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011102183630.E4C5F199B9@mail.cse.psu.edu>

rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) writes:

> > But the BIOS should understand the USB floppy and from there you can
> > boot/install from c: unless this m/c is weirder than a VAIO.
>
> We tried that.  Loading the kernel off the disk never gets
> the right bits.  We suspect that maybe the USB is busmastering
> and we need to turn it off.  It's all just never-ending hacks
> because we don't have real USB support.

Unless I misunderstood your previous post, isn't the real problem that
you don't have the ability to boot from CD and install?  Bootable CDs
are a good deal more universal than USB support.  Linux and BeOS and
OS/2 and so on and so forth can all boot from CD and install, but
their USB support is...  well, they have some, but last I checked
(which admittedly has been several months) the USB support in most
OSes (apart from MS and Apple, who have support from the hardware
vendors) only covers certain specific devices (scanners and such), not
floppies and keyboards and modems and mice and other things that have
perfectly good unified extant interface standards and shouldn't be
using a USB interface in the first place.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-05 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-02 18:36 Russ Cox
2001-11-05 16:49 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One [this message]
2001-11-05 17:21   ` Ian Cooper
2001-11-06 10:30     ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-30 10:15 [9fans] plan 9 nigel
2002-08-30  9:57 Isaac Stern
2001-11-13 10:53 [9fans] Plan 9 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-09 22:39 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-09 12:25 geoff
2001-11-12 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 15:11   ` Ozan Yigit
2001-11-13  0:15     ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 11:41 ` Sam Ducksworth
2001-11-13 10:25   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09  1:47 okamoto
2001-11-08 15:05 presotto
2001-11-08 14:44 forsyth
2001-11-08 14:02 presotto
2001-11-09  0:25 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-09 10:08 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 17:31   ` Dan Cross
2001-11-12 10:33     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-13  2:10       ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 10:34         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 13:07 Bruce Janson
2001-11-09 10:07 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 13:06 rob pike
2001-11-09 10:08 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 18:05 anothy
2001-11-07 17:43 anothy
2001-11-07 17:47 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-07 17:28 Russ Cox
2001-11-08 10:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 19:38   ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-09 10:18     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 12:58 rob pike
2001-11-08 10:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 11:00 geoff
2001-11-08 10:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 10:03 forsyth
2001-11-08 10:38 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07  1:09 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-06 18:46 anothy
2001-11-07  9:44 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 18:14 forsyth
2001-11-07  9:43 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 18:07 presotto
2001-11-07  9:44 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 16:59 anothy
2001-11-06 17:54 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 13:45 nigel
2001-11-06 13:33 rob pike
2001-11-06 17:53 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06  1:14 presotto
2001-11-06  1:30 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-11-06  1:37   ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2001-11-05 21:47 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-05 21:53 ` andrey
2001-11-06 10:31   ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:32   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 10:43 ` pac
2001-11-05 21:04 rob pike
2001-11-05 21:00 Richard Miller
2001-11-05 18:18 anothy
2001-11-06  1:06 ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2001-11-06 10:31 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-05 17:45 forsyth
2001-11-05 17:44 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-06 10:31 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 13:34   ` Tomas
2001-11-05 15:48 presotto
2001-11-06 10:31 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 17:53   ` Ozan Yigit
2001-11-02 17:57 forsyth
2001-11-02 18:22 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-02 17:26 Russ Cox
2001-11-02 18:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 10:21 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-05 16:49 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 17:08   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-06 10:23     ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-02 13:53 rob pike
2001-11-05 10:20 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-29 21:08 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-05 15:00 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-10-26 15:12 Russ Cox
2001-10-29 10:16 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-10-25 17:52 Russ Cox
2001-10-26  9:23 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-10-26 15:03   ` William Josephson
2001-10-26 20:14     ` Dan Adkins
2001-10-25 12:45 rob pike
2001-10-25 13:47 ` Borja Marcos
2001-10-25 21:52   ` Jim Choate
2001-10-26  8:35     ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-25 16:59 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-11-01  9:47 ` Randolph Fritz
2001-11-01 14:18   ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-02  9:58   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-02 11:43     ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-11-02 12:39       ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 14:11         ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-11-05 15:13           ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 16:30             ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 17:37               ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 17:42                 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 18:04                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 18:30                     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 19:58                     ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-02 15:36       ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-02 15:42         ` andrey
2001-11-02 15:54           ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-05 15:01 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 15:29   ` Markus Friedl
2001-11-05 15:49   ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-06 10:23     ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
1998-11-13  8:29 Scott
1998-11-11 21:08 Mats

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