> > if someone's itching for a project, the installer could use > > a little touch up. > > The program to detect where to install from, /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/ > mountdist, is good. The only problem seems to be with the plan9.ini > file, /sys/lib/dist/pc/plan9.ini.cd, which specifically asks to boot > from /dev/sdD0. Unless there is a better way to specify "the device > where plan9.ini was found," say $inidev? That would require some > modifications to the plan9.ini parser, am I right?
i have made this modification. /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/9loadaoe. look for "bootdev" in load.c unfortunately, this technique will not work when booting from a cd because an el torito cd uses a fakey-fakey floppy image to boot from. as far as the installer is concerned, it's booting from a floppy disk. i also think there's a few other places where assumptions are made. maybe i'm wrong. it's been a long time since i fought with the installer. and that time i lost. :-) - erik
