Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread hiro
that mus be a miracle On 2/25/10, Purple_Q wrote: > Sorry Erik, that particular message was intended for John. > I had mentioned that changing sata controller settings in my bios from > ahci to ide allowed plan9 to see my hard drive but killed FreeBSD. He > asked at what point in the boot sequenc

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread Purple_Q
Sorry Erik, that particular message was intended for John. I had mentioned that changing sata controller settings in my bios from ahci to ide allowed plan9 to see my hard drive but killed FreeBSD. He asked at what point in the boot sequence this was happening, so I posted it to show him. I can't g

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread Purple_Q
Oops. My own trigger finger, sorry. Yeah, the drive is just fine if set in the bios to ahci, but plan9 can't see it. If I set it to IDE, plan9 can see it but it gives BSD the errors you see in the image. Weird. On Feb 25, 7:28 am, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote: > On Thu Feb 25 07:

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 25 07:19:14 EST 2010, quans...@quanstro.net wrote: > On Thu Feb 25 06:29:21 EST 2010, bitpusher2...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hmm, might be slightly above my head (I don't know what a node is). > > That aside, the boot loader fires up fine, and it makes it to what I > > believe is near the en

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 25 06:29:21 EST 2010, bitpusher2...@gmail.com wrote: > Hmm, might be slightly above my head (I don't know what a node is). > That aside, the boot loader fires up fine, and it makes it to what I > believe is near the end of the boot sequence in fact. ad0 is my hard > disk; > queuevonqu.co

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread Purple_Q
Hmm, might be slightly above my head (I don't know what a node is). That aside, the boot loader fires up fine, and it makes it to what I believe is near the end of the boot sequence in fact. ad0 is my hard disk; queuevonqu.com/bsderr.jpg My pardons if that's hard to read. Those messages at the bot

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread John Stalker
> I tried an experiment with both success and failure; > in my bios, I have an option to change "sata controller mode" from > achi to ide. I tried changing that and then the plan9 installer can > see my hard disk, however, the failure is that in that mode, I cannot > boot FreeBSD, it just freezes t

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread Purple_Q
Well, I tried those commands and it did me no justice. I don't know how to change the driver you speak of so I'm thinking i'll have to give up on getting native Plan9 onto this netbook. I tried an experiment with both success and failure; in my bios, I have an option to change "sata controller mod

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> > try this.  at the install prompt, type "!rc".  then at the rc prompt > > type "cat /dev/sdctl".  the output should be interesting. > > queuevonqu.com/9boot_a.jpg okay. so it sees your controller, but not the drives. there are a couple reasons this might be. - power management. perhaps the

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-24 Thread Purple_Q
> try this.  at the install prompt, type "!rc".  then at the rc prompt > type "cat /dev/sdctl".  the output should be interesting. queuevonqu.com/9boot_a.jpg

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Feb 24 10:06:05 EST 2010, bitpusher2...@gmail.com wrote: > It doesn't matter if I choose yes or no, the end result is the same. > It asks for mouse port, resolution and screen, then goes into rio. > When it comes time to partition, it says "no disk device is available, > installation cannot

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-24 Thread Purple_Q
It doesn't matter if I choose yes or no, the end result is the same. It asks for mouse port, resolution and screen, then goes into rio. When it comes time to partition, it says "no disk device is available, installation cannot continue".

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Feb 24 05:19:28 EST 2010, bitpusher2...@gmail.com wrote: > I must not have made the last post correctly, so i'll try again : > ( Sorry if this turns into a double post. > Anyway, these pics are the output "sitting still" after booting from > the usb stick image: > www.queuevonqu.com/9boot2.j

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-24 Thread Purple_Q
I must not have made the last post correctly, so i'll try again : ( Sorry if this turns into a double post. Anyway, these pics are the output "sitting still" after booting from the usb stick image: www.queuevonqu.com/9boot2.jpg www.queuevonqu.com/9boot3.jpg And this is booting from the usb-cdrom d

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-23 Thread Purple_Q
I'm not overly concerned about the network card, so no worries. As far as the bootup, which do you want to see, from Lucho's image or from usb-cdrom? Also, the usb stick is big enough to put the actual cd .iso file onto if that will allow me to install the distribution itself that way.

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
i converted your bsd pci output to something i could get a handle on: ; pci `{hget http://www.queuevonqu.com/pciconf.html | htmlfmt | awk '{print $4}' | sed 's;chip=0x()();\2/\1;g' } 8086/27ac Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub 8086/27ae Intel Co

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
the attensec l1c is not supported. very sorry about that. i don't have any attensec/atheros hardware. - erik

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-23 Thread Purple_Q
How do you mean? Should I boot from Lucho's thumb image or via usb cdrom? Since you quoted my first paragraph regarding Lucho's image, I booted from it. I don't have an lscpi, so I ran pciconf (FreeBSD) and I ran pci from the plan 9 bootup. pciconf output here: www.queuevonqu.com/pciconf.html Pla

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> Greets. > I fired up the image provided by Lucho. > When I get to the gui and go to do the partitioning, it says there is > no disk device. Apparently, it can't see my hard drive. I just unboxed > this laptop about an hour ago so I perhaps the drive is sata and it > can't see it or something? co

[9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-22 Thread Purple_Q
Greets. I fired up the image provided by Lucho. When I get to the gui and go to do the partitioning, it says there is no disk device. Apparently, it can't see my hard drive. I just unboxed this laptop about an hour ago so I perhaps the drive is sata and it can't see it or something? Also, I have a

[9fans] Netbook

2009-08-20 Thread james toy
Hello 9fans, A few things: 1) I'm going to be installing and finishing up the Plan9 setup I have at plan9.union.edu or plan9.cs.union.edu; I have not decided where I would like to put it yet. I'll be doing all of my senior projects on Plan9 so that I can further my understanding of the system and

Re: [9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help

2009-03-04 Thread Ben Calvert
ok - this boots and launches into the installer. I need to back track and free up some disk space, I'll report back when i've accomplished that Ben On Mar 4, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Ben Calvert wrote: trying now... On Mar 3, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: You can try /n/sources/co

Re: [9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help

2009-03-04 Thread Ben Calvert
trying now... On Mar 3, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: You can try /n/sources/contrib/lucho/usbinst9.img.gz. Just dd it to a USB flash drive and try booting from it. Thanks, Lucho On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Ben Calvert wrote: ya, that would be great On Mar 1, 2009, at

Re: [9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help

2009-03-03 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
You can try /n/sources/contrib/lucho/usbinst9.img.gz. Just dd it to a USB flash drive and try booting from it. Thanks, Lucho On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Ben Calvert wrote: > ya, that would be great > On Mar 1, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: > >> Booting from a USB flash driv

Re: [9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help

2009-03-02 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
The image that I have is equivalent to the Plan9 floppy disk. You need to have the content of the distribution copied somewhere on the hard disk, or install from the network. Thanks, Lucho On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Latchesa

Re: [9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help

2009-03-01 Thread Ben Calvert
ya, that would be great On Mar 1, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: Booting from a USB flash drive is possible (if the BIOS supports booting from USB), but a bit tricky. I had to make few small changes in 9load. I have an image somewhere, if anybody is interested in trying it I can try t

Re: [9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help

2009-03-01 Thread Federico G. Benavento
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: > Booting from a USB flash drive is possible (if the BIOS supports > booting from USB), but a bit tricky. I had to make few small changes > in 9load. I have an image somewhere, if anybody is interested in > trying it I can try to find it. > w

Re: [9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help

2009-03-01 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
Booting from a USB flash drive is possible (if the BIOS supports booting from USB), but a bit tricky. I had to make few small changes in 9load. I have an image somewhere, if anybody is interested in trying it I can try to find it. Thanks, Lucho On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Steve Simon wro

Re: [9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help

2009-03-01 Thread Steve Simon
You can install from a local fat partition if you put the plan9.iso file in the partition - don't unpack it, just put the single big file there and the installer scripts will allow you to chose it as a source for the full install. A bigger problem is you have to boot the installer kernel, normally

[9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help

2009-02-28 Thread Ben Calvert
the install_notes page mentions that you can install with a local fat partition, but doesn't give any particulars. I'll be happy to put together a wiki page if someone can walk me through the procedure thanks, Ben