> I am using the floppy only for testing plan9.ini parameters. > This should be possible with qemu or other emulators too. Later > I will use an IDE disk or IDE flash disk (I would prefer the > second). > So I am not sure whether it makes sense to spend time to make this > possible. I can live wíthout the floppy support. > > I would like to ask where are the differences between the original > Ken fileserver and your modifications? Many documents in the web > seems > to be made for the original fileserver. So it would be helpfull for > me to know the differences.
i'm not sure why you are doing it this way. typically one puts the plan9.ini right on the hard drive with everything else. i added support for the partitions that plan 9 supports to ken fs. this is important when sharing aoe equipment. so it would be easy to create a 9fat partition with your plan9.ini and other files. for example here is the configuration i had for a testing fileserver on a soekris box. i had partitioned h0 as usual for a plan 9 cpu server with a 10mb 9fat. - erik ----- [menu] menuitem=fs, fs menuitem=cpu, cpu menudefault=fs,5 menuconsole=0 b19200 [fs] bootfile=sdC0!9fat!9askafs.gz ether0=type=83815 ether1=type=83815 dumpctl=off nvr=ph0"9fat"!fs.nvr [cpu] bootfile=sdC0!9fat!9pc.gz bootfile=ether0!ladd!/386/9pc.gz bootargs=il nobootprompt=il [common] console=0 b19200 *e820print=1
