On 5/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's just a standard inferno distribution. (plus a .bat file > to start up the inferno wm automatically - one line)
I've got the same thing going on my USB key. It was pretty trivial to set up, though because I use mine cross-platform it took a minor amount of extra oomph. Though the key is formatted FAT32, I think I ended up doing the installation on either OSX or Linux due to case sensitivity. Then I just copied/renamed the appropriate emu binaries for the correct platforms in the correct places, created batch and shell scripts to handle the startup and voila. Since then I've ripped out source/binaries for some of the platforms I don't use (Solaris), just to recover some space. Plus, I'm also lazy and haven't updated it in a while, but it works very well. I had worked/hoped for a while to get it to auth back to my home box, import the filesystem, etc. -- kind of an Inferno thin client -- but I really wanted it all to happen from within the WM, but certain aspects really wanted authentication before the binds to make everything friendly. I also messed around with Inferno hosted on Linux for a while, so I could just VNC to a full-screen session and just pack around the VNC client. Java VNC client would have worked, too, but how many layers do you really want to add? I also pack around 9pm on my key, because I find that useful. My "butcher box" is currently running Asterisk for a work-related project, otherwise I'd probably do what everyone else does and just drawterm home. Where's that iMac Mini port, so I can just leave a CPU/auth/fileserver on the bookshelf and be done with it? ;) -Jack
