the problem comes when you just can't boot the CD! last month when erik and I got Plan 9 booting on this machine it was really convenient just to be able to copy 9load to a fat partition while I was running windows, reboot and see if it worked, I didn't even tried to load a kernel at that point because 9load didn't even see the disks.
so, yes, 9fat helped, not because the kernel or Plan 9 lived there but because I could just copy the loader (9load) really fast. I talked some weeks ago about this with iru, because I really didn't see the point in getting rid of 9fat. I could achieve the same as I did by doing "copy 9load E:" on windows with this new approach, but I'd need to boot some linux live CD and dd my way out to put the new loader there which I'll be too hacky and I'd probably need a version of prepdisk for linux on that live cd as well, if I got it right. On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Tim Newsham<news...@lava.net> wrote: >> i have found it convienent to be able to update a kernel >> from linux, osx, windows. i would imagine this is important >> for vm solutions, too. do you think it's preferable to build >> a live cd for this including the little bit prepared in another >> os? i've found live cds to be pretty annoying to maintain. > > Can you explain the "VM solutions" point further? > > The current plan 9 install CD is already a live CD. I don't imagine this > places an extra burden on whoever maintains it. Once you have a live CD that > works with your system (ie. the same one you installed with), you don't > really need to update it unless you change to a new filesystem not supported > by the CD. > >> - erik > > Tim Newsham > http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ > > -- Federico G. Benavento
