Installing 9front

[Uriel <uriel@berlinblue.org>]

So I told cinap that if he got Go working on 9front I would install 9front.

And of course, in like 15min he had Go up and running.

So I had to install 9front.

Well, the installer sucks, it is much better than the old installer,
but still SUCKS.

1) Stupid shit like this: http://harmful.cat-v.org/_9front/config-config.png

config: config: config: config: config: config:?!? Really? WTF?

2) Too many questions, and worse, some of them have no defaults when
there is an obvious default, this is still much improved from the old
installer, and just pressing enter works *almost* all the time, there
is no reason to not finish this up. (Also, a 'quick install' option
might be a good idea, to spare you from pressing enter a hundred
times).

3) Not only are the disk space requirements are somewhat high, but you
get no warning if your disk is too small, you go all the way into
copydist, which barfs on disk full errors, but 'completes' anyway and
pretends it is done and that you can go on with the next install step.

At the very least we should warn if the disk is too small, and
probably we should fail before going into copydist.

4) Yes, there is disk size advice in the Wiki Install page, but why
should I look at the wiki? Anyway the install page is HUGE and is full
of useless screendumps from the installer. Most of the useful bits of
info from that page should just be incorporated into the installer
itself (which anyway already prints too much useless shit, like
endless streams of "config:").

All that said, I can't believe I'm in a Plan 9 system and I can do hg
inc and hg log and get meaningful information about changes!!!! I feel
like I must be dreaming.

Awesome.

Uriel