Venkatesh Srinivas wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:54 AM, hiro<23h...@googlemail.com> wrote:
perhaps we should try to boot plan 9 from a linux kernel? Sounds great to me...
this probably makes me a troll...
I hear ron minnich did that with his lguest port. Does that make him a troll?
-- vs
yes, he got us interested in something vicariously and then cast it aside :)
What you gonna do when MS knocks on the door for their FAT patent
license fee
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/microsoft-sues-tomtom-over-fat-patents-in-linux-based-device.ars
though maybe the inability to do fat32 will save you.
Editing plan9.ini on dos has saved me more than once, but back when I
was using a floppy (a BSDi labelled one at that) and its small size has
also hurt me before now too.
I like the sound of the sector 1 idea, I'm sure making a tool to r/w it
in Linux / whatever can't be hard.
