I used dd and the 9front img. On Aug 12, 2014 5:43 PM, "dante" <subscripti...@posteo.eu> wrote:
> Dear 9ers, > > Here is my first contribution. > > AFAIK, there is no installer yet for the Rasbperry Pi port. > Moreover, the Raspberry Pi can only boot from the one SD card (not from > USB). > This makes the classical installer design (boot from a removable device, > install on the fixed disk) impractical. > > A solution would be to start with a given installation (e.g., Richard > Miller's bootable image), use an SD-to-USB adapter and clone the disk. > This has the following advantages: > - the new disk can be used at full capacity (not only 2GB or so in the > original image); > - the installation can be done without the need of an additional system > (a PC to write the image or even a virtual machine as proposed by > 9front https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/9pi) > > The attached script clones a Raspberry Pi Plan9 Fossil installation to an > SD disk connected via such a USB adapter. > If the device is recognised as "sdUXX", call "piclone sdUXX". > > I have no idea where this utility belongs to. > It is IMHO too specific to be placed under arm/bin. > For this reason, I attach the file in stead of sending a patch(1). > I hope it helps and it will find it's way into Plan9 (or at least to Mr. > Miller's image :-). > > DISCLAIMER: There might be bugs. > > Kind Regards, > Dante
