Re: [9fans] sad commentary

2008-07-01 Thread bblochl
rn for hackers. uriel I would say that is hard core stuff for hackers. (Some need that urgently!) bblochl

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

2008-07-01 Thread bblochl
Federico G. Benavento wrote: Plan 9 is not for end users. Plan 9 is for programmers. That has a very long beard! Isn`t programming without endusers just like wanking? bblochl

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

2008-06-30 Thread bblochl
With this link ione only gets the starting page of the paper. Is there any other source for the complete Paper (without cost)? bblochl I'm not sure what you're looking at, but when I downloaded and uncompressed that paper I got the whole thing. John 1. Where are the examples

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

2008-06-30 Thread bblochl
c is not self-evident for a traditional normal OS-user. It is a regret that alef has gone and limbo is not available under Plan 9. (Or is it?) As there is no simple introduction to Plan 9 new users will just go the easy way and get Windows or Linux. bblochl

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

2008-06-30 Thread bblochl
ing page of the paper. Is there any other source for the complete Paper (without cost)? bblochl

Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-13 Thread bblochl
Charles Forsyth schrieb: Have you tried an installation (not an update!) with the actual CD-edition ( I think it is the third edition) of plan9? a third edition CD would be quite old and quite different as regards both the file system implementation (kfs instead of fossil/venti) and more i

Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-13 Thread bblochl
Martin Neubauer schrieb: I started out with a small installation on a spare partition of a laptop to get the hang of the system. Later I set up a standalone file server I can boot a terminal from (usually said laptop.) This can be regarded as the normal mode of operation. The installation never

Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-12 Thread bblochl
Martin Neubauer schrieb: Using /dev/sdD0/data worked for me. Did you actually try it? I am sorry I made a mistake in the last posting. i used the word decide instead of distinguish! So the text could be misinterpreted. Please read One must decide distinguish between the prompt "mountdisk",

Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-12 Thread bblochl
Martin Neubauer schrieb: I started out with a small installation on a spare partition of a laptop to get the hang of the system. Later I set up a standalone file server I can boot a terminal from (usually said laptop.) This can be regarded as the normal mode of operation. The installation never g

Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-12 Thread bblochl
Martin Neubauer schrieb: If you don't boot from cd you still need to have access to the data that is getting installed. So you can either put the cd image somewhere on the system (this can be a problem if you want to install Plan 9 on the whole hard disc) or download it during installation. I als

Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-11 Thread bblochl
Eric, thank you for explaining the facts with dossrv! Well. I can understand now that /n/9fat/ will be populated by dossrv and not part of the inatalled files and that cannnot be the source of the bug, but is a follow up. There must be something wrong before that step of "bootsetup". I d

Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-11 Thread bblochl
erik quanstrom schrieb: Initializing Plan 9 FAT configuration partition (9fat) add 9load at clust 2 Initializing FAT file system type hard, 12 tracks, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 512 bytes/sec Adding file /n/newfs/386/9load, length 338424 add 9load at clust 2 used 342016 bytes /bin/mount: can't

[9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-11 Thread bblochl
I installed plan 9 standalone on my hard disk and would like to boot it from there. The probably last step of the setup process of plan 9 makes some trouble. the task bootsetup give me the messages: -- Initializing Plan

Re: [9fans] Flash

2008-05-11 Thread bblochl
Rodolfo Garcia (kix) schrieb: I'm currently using opera on debian and I luckily can't seem to find any working flash plugins in the apt repositories. It sometimes sucks not being able to see some pages, but all in all I also think I am more productive now. I don't like the flash blocking. It does