> On Nov 28, 2007 12:39 PM, Sape Mullender plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:

>> Any requirements on those sticks other than size? Is there a
>> difference between bootable and non bootable?
>>

>
> I did not think that bootable was "special". I hope not. If you can
> put an MBR on it, it should work.
>
> The size is really the size of sdC0, which is 1.6 or so GB. I don't
> like venti-less plan 9 systems.
>
> Another way to shrink down is to use an image we have on there that is
> a true terminal, and mounts root from somewhere on the net. This is
> pretty unbearable to use, but maybe cfs makes it all better?
>
> So you can technically get this back to 512MB if you toss the sdC0
> image on the flash, but you may not like the result.
>
> Be sure your laptop can boot from USB. That's needed. If we get
> desperate I guess we can burn a boot CD. Or, transfer the image to
> HDD.
>
> So this is not going to be me up there with powerpoint. It's pretty
> hands on. And Aki is going to help, right, Aki?
>
> Also Aki and I are going to show a WIP we think you all will like. Aki
> doesn't know that yet. Oh, oops, well, now he does :-)
>
> ron