> 9vx could replace drawterm in our environment, but i think > the following work is required. 9vx needs > - to be able to boot with no local files other than the executable, > (i.e. directly from a plan 9 fs)
Actually, I've been using it this way for a while. More precisely, when I'm on my home network it boots like a terminal talking to my file server. When I'm away from my home network, it boots off a local fossil/venti partition. It did take some relatively minor changes, but if they're not in the tree, they might have fallen through the cracks. I even threw in the plan9.ini parsing so I could give myself a menu and set the appropriate variables. (I'm not using it for any other plan9.ini sorts of things.) The relevant bits of my 9vx.ini file are: [native] nobootprompt=local!#S/sd00/ venti=#S/sd00/arenas user=glenda [home] nobootprompt=tcp fs=172.30.1.2 auth=172.30.1.2 user=stuart > especially if the kernel were (sort-of) pxe loaded so that clients would > only need a local copy of the loader and changes would then be > automaticly distributed.) Now that could be fun. BLS
