Re: [9fans] how to mount an inert fossil partition?

2011-06-08 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
hello first time you boot, fossil dumps the whole fs to venti, and that takes a while, and also this can make your system look like hanged, iirc you can see what venti is doing listing the processes with control+t-p iirc if your shell is irresponsive or with ps -a. may be we need to put a message

[9fans] can't access fossil dumps anymore

2011-06-08 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
Hi (again), I can't access the fossil dumps on my recent Plan 9 (fossil+venti) installation. I can: term% 9fs dump but can't list the dump directory content: term% ls -l /n/dump ls: /n/dump: block label mismatch I also have 'overprinted black background messages of the death' saying:

Re: [9fans] how to mount an inert fossil partition?

2011-06-08 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
On 08/06/2011 23:36, Gabriel Díaz López de la llave wrote: hello if the system can't boot, what are the symptoms? any error messages? can't find the kernel? can't find sd device? Good point. I don't really know what happened but the system started! Last time I tried, I waited tens of minutes

Re: [9fans] how to mount an inert fossil partition?

2011-06-08 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
hello if the system can't boot, what are the symptoms? any error messages? can't find the kernel? can't find sd device? what were you configuring when this happened? if you used fossil+venti installation, you need to start venti server before fossil. slds. gabi On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:23 P

Re: [9fans] how to mount an inert fossil partition?

2011-06-08 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> Sorry for the basic questions, diving into Plan 9 is somehow difficult for > beginners. So is diving in general. HTH. HAND.

Re: [9fans] how to mount an inert fossil partition?

2011-06-08 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
On 08/06/2011 22:08, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: if the fossil partition is /dev/sdC0/fossil on the cpu you're on, you should be able to bring it up (assuming the configuration is sane) using: fossil/fossil -f /dev/sdC0/fossil OK, among the things I tried, I did this and had some complaints beca

Re: [9fans] how to mount an inert fossil partition?

2011-06-08 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
if the fossil partition is /dev/sdC0/fossil on the cpu you're on, you should be able to bring it up (assuming the configuration is sane) using: fossil/fossil -f /dev/sdC0/fossil if not you can print the configuration: fossil/conf /dev/sdC0/fossil and rewrite it with the -w flag. the example

Re: [9fans] how to mount an inert fossil partition?

2011-06-08 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Jun 8 15:48:19 EDT 2011, nberc...@yahoo.fr wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've read a lot of documentation so far but I'm still not able to draw how to > mount an > "inert fossil partition" (i.e. available as a regular partition, but not used > by the system). > > I did some bad configurat

[9fans] how to mount an inert fossil partition?

2011-06-08 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
Hi everybody, I've read a lot of documentation so far but I'm still not able to draw how to mount an "inert fossil partition" (i.e. available as a regular partition, but not used by the system). I did some bad configuration and I can't boot my Plan 9. So I try to use another Plan 9 install t

Re: [9fans] Living with Plan 9

2011-06-08 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
... so do I, except of testing c++ and other stuff on linux first, cross fingers, man, and welcome aboard ;-) !! ++pac