On 24 Apr 2011, at 5:48 am, smi...@zenzebra.mv.com wrote:
Ethan Grammatikidis <eeke...@fastmail.fm> writes:
On 11 Apr 2011, at 2:51 pm, David Leimbach wrote:
I posted some on the wiki about how I got the guruplug working for
me...
How do you find things on the wiki? I came across this today. My
first
thought was to look in the other_hardware page where I found mention
of the Shevaplug and Guruplug but no links so I looked in the news
page and only found a link to Nemo's home website... :)
There's a wiki page index:
http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Wiki_index
An index which is only linked from the front page.. well ok, it's a
lot better than no index.
You can also:
9fs wiki && cd /mnt/wiki
The wiki pages should all be listed in that directory, with spaces in
their names converted to underscores.
This is what I would have done if sources hadn't gone down.
Google simply can't find the word "guruplug" anywhere on
www.plan9.bell-labs.com despite there being a clear link chain to a
wiki page which has it, so that's no use.
Google can't find much at all regarding Plan 9. (Well, not for any of
the searches I've done.) I don't think google has learned that we
exist
yet. ;)
up some obsolete info too. Do I need an account to edit the wiki? I
Nope. Anyone with srv(4) can mount it. The standard way to edit
it is
via Acme. 'Local 9fs wiki' and then 'Wiki'.
Good to know.
In theory.
:)
Incidentally, 9front exists in part because plan 9 theory differs
from practice too often. Unfortunately it's only a few weeks old and
has a grand total of 6 wiki pages, some of which are jokes.
When I try this, I am able to pull up the wiki pages. But I only have
about 60 seconds to get in, make my changes, and Put them. If I take
any longer than that, I get all sorts of "hangup" errors. I have to
close out the Wiki windows, 9fs and Wiki back in, and try again to
make
the changes faster. Guess the fids go stale or something. It'd be
nice
to know why the wiki drops out so quickly, though.
If I only get 60 seconds I certainly will not be helping to fix up
the wiki!
I had sources go down in the middle of contrib/install'ing tex. Now
THAT was frustrating. contrib(1) doesn't handle partially installed
packages very well at all. Say, where is the canonical community bug
tracker for Plan 9, anyway?
Contrib doesn't handle many unexpected things well, don't use it in
9vx if root is on the host filesystem. IIRC it's based on replica(1)
which rather requires ideal circumstances for correct behaviour.
