[9fans] Plan9 install CDROM seems only want to install from fd0
I have tried to install plan9 to a spare hard disk today but when I select options to from the install cd's boot menu it says that the device it is meant to boot from is invalid. The only device it says that is bootable is fd0 which I'm sure is the floppy. I don't have a floppy. Have I got something wrong? Is there something wrong with my AMD64 PC? or is it a bogus iso that I wrote to disk?
[9fans] Latest sam for Windows
Is the 1997 version of sam for Windows 95/NT available on netlib the most recent port of sam to Windows? If not, where can I find the latest version of sam for Windows? Thanks very much.
Re: [9fans] Plan9 install CDROM seems only want to install from fd0
* RyanMcCoskrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080804 10:41]: > I have tried to install plan9 to a spare hard disk today but when I > select options to > from the install cd's boot menu it says that the device it is meant to > boot from is invalid. > The only device it says that is bootable is fd0 which I'm sure is the > floppy. Is your hard disk detected? If yes this is a common blunder of the install script you can solve easily. Most likely it does not find the CDROM where it expects it to be, that is as the secondary master. In plan9 this is sdD0... You can enter different devices than that. Try sdD1 or even sdC1 for example. HTH, Christian -- You may use my gpg key for replies: pub 1024D/47F79788 2005/02/02 Christian Kellermann (C-Keen) pgpWaoMrtRH3X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [9fans] Plan9 install CDROM seems only want to install from fd0
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Christian Kellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * RyanMcCoskrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080804 10:41]: >> I have tried to install plan9 to a spare hard disk today but when I >> select options to >> from the install cd's boot menu it says that the device it is meant to >> boot from is invalid. > > Is your hard disk detected? If yes this is a common blunder of the > install script you can solve easily. Most likely it does not find > the CDROM where it expects it to be, that is as the secondary master. > In plan9 this is sdD0... You can enter different devices than that. To be specific, sdD0!cdboot!9pccd.gz for booting the livecd, sdD0!cdboot!9pcflop.gz for installing. sdD0 is secondary master, sdC0 primary master, sdD1 secondary slave. Assuming you manage to find a kernel using one of these, for the livecd portion you'll have to make a similar substitution later on in the boot process when it is looking for the root filesystem - something like local!#S/sdD0/data. As for "easily solved", I'm not so sure. I've been able to boot the livecd with the cd drive not on secondary master, but as soon as the install script starts running it locks up. -sqweek
[9fans] Octopus experiences
I've been trying to set up Octopus on my Plan 9 system but I've been having some trouble. Nemo has been very helpful but I seem to be too dense to figure out what I've been doing wrong; I'd like to hear some experiences from people in the same position as me--installing Octopus on a Plan 9 server or terminal from scratch. Can anyone who has tried installing Octopus with the newest distribution describe what you ended up doing? Did you install on a CPU server or a terminal? What files did you need to modify? Thanks John
Re: [9fans] Latest sam for Windows
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:39 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the 1997 version of sam for Windows 95/NT available on netlib the > most recent port of sam to Windows? yes. russ
Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:23 AM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:48 PM, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does Plan 9 Port help? I mean, libthread on Plan 9 Port alone could be >> worth a ton to me in some situations. >> Concurrent programming for the win? > > probably not for this community. When we had plan9port in xcpu we got > nothing but complaints. This in spite of the fact that some things are > impossible to scale with 5000 posix threads, and easy to scale with > 5000 plan 9 style threads. Why not use rsc's libtask instead? It would avoid most of the p9p baggage (which certainly it is not designed to make it easy for people to build apps that depend on it). libtask is small enough that it could easily be distributed together with xcpu. Just an ignorant suggestion by someone that is not even clear on what xcpu does. uriel
[9fans] sources is out of service
Its venti arena partitions are full. I'll fix it Wednesday and post a note here when it's back in service.
