Re: [9fans] PBSR...EI

2013-01-14 Thread John Floren
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> I'm about an hour and a half into downloading 9atom, with about a half >> hour to go. I'll probably be able to report on my progress tomorrow. >> >> Have you ever considered hosting the iso on a faster server? It's kind >> of harsh to wait

Re: [9fans] PBSR...EI

2013-01-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> I'm about an hour and a half into downloading 9atom, with about a half > hour to go. I'll probably be able to report on my progress tomorrow. > > Have you ever considered hosting the iso on a faster server? It's kind > of harsh to wait 2 hours every time there's an update. the server is willing

Re: [9fans] PBSR...EI

2013-01-14 Thread John Floren
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:52 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Has anyone else run into this? Is it something to do with the new >> bootloaders? I've seen it on several other motherboards lately and >> don't remember ever seeing it when I last installed from CD (about 2 >> years ago). > > fwiw, i never

Re: [9fans] PBSR...EI

2013-01-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> Has anyone else run into this? Is it something to do with the new > bootloaders? I've seen it on several other motherboards lately and > don't remember ever seeing it when I last installed from CD (about 2 > years ago). fwiw, i never saw that with 9load. if you don't mind downloading overnight,

[9fans] PBSR...EI

2013-01-14 Thread John Floren
I've been trying to install Plan 9 on a previously-untried system. When I put in the install disc and try to boot, I only see "PBSR...EI" and then nothing else. I've seen this with the Bell Labs CD and both 9legacy images. I have an old 9atom disc that gets farther, booting into the actual kernel a

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-14 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:16:13 GMT Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > You can't buy them new but we can probably come to some > arrangement since I'm not using mine. I got it because it's > got an fpga in it, but never managed to get the cpu to talk > to it. Speaking of fpgas, the Zynq 70

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-14 Thread Bakul Shah
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:21:40 PST John Floren wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > >>> Blue Gene > >>> > >> > >> hard to fit in the basement. > > > > How about an ipengine (mpc823)? I've got one gathering dust here. > > > > > > I caution against

[9fans] OED2 index?

2013-01-14 Thread phineas . pett
Does anyone have an index file for OED2? (I have the CD, and was able to strip out the data using tristan's utilities, but I'm not having much luck generating the index file for use with dict.) Much thanks! phineas

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-14 Thread Richard Miller
> if there's a kernel for it, and i could find, it would be great. I have a kernel, which I haven't booted for 3 years but should be ok. You can't buy them new but we can probably come to some arrangement since I'm not using mine. I got it because it's got an fpga in it, but never managed to get