Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-10 Thread erik quanstrom
> 1. After mounting usb disk with addloop, there is no file /dev/sdU1.0/plan9. > How > can I create plan9 partion table? > > 2. What does diskparts(8), actually do? Does it create partitons on phisical > disk? diskparts reads existing paritition information from the disk, it does not write an

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-10 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
I've some more questions to partitoning process in Plan9, I hope that after solving them I will finally manage to partiton my disk successfully: 1. After mounting usb disk with addloop, there is no file /dev/sdU1.0/plan9. How can I create plan9 partion table? 2. What does diskparts(8), actually

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-07 Thread erik quanstrom
> /386/mbr > /386/9pcf for pcf "cd /sys/src/9/pc; mk 'CONF=pcf' install". - erik

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-07 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, I've bought a new ethernet card and finally I've the internet connection working :) However, I'm still having problems with disk partitoning. I'm trying to initalize blank disk as I have mentioned before(following preg(8) example) , using loopback as the erick suggested. But I don't have any

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-06 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 02:30:02PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > yup. i'll bet you compiled on the hard drive, and that's where the > > > executables are. try booting without the pen drive. > > No sadly it isn't true. But my question is: do I need the Internet > > connection in order to mount

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> > yup. i'll bet you compiled on the hard drive, and that's where the > > executables are. try booting without the pen drive. > No sadly it isn't true. But my question is: do I need the Internet > connection in order to mount atom image or can I install plan9 on my USB > disk without it? i think

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> fshalt(8). absolutely not needed in this case. - erik

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-03 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 02:13:10PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > > there is not enough room on the usb key to install all. > > > > The other problem is that after compiling usb and all it > > > > dependences when I've rebooted the plan 9 atom all programs > > > > disappeared and I've needed

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-03 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 04/03/2014 09:08 PM, Szymon Olewniczak wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:02:23PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: >> On Wed Apr 2 17:49:51 EDT 2014, szymon.olewnic...@rid.pl wrote: if you do a pull as glenda, or alternately mount /srv/boot /n/root && 9fs atom &&

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> > > > there is not enough room on the usb key to install all. > > > The other problem is that after compiling usb and all it > > > dependences when I've rebooted the plan 9 atom all programs > > > disappeared and I've needed to compile them again. Is there any > > > method to make the changes to

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-03 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:02:23PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Wed Apr 2 17:49:51 EDT 2014, szymon.olewnic...@rid.pl wrote: > > > if you do a pull as glenda, or alternately > > > > > > mount /srv/boot /n/root && > > > 9fs atom && > > > disk/mkfs -vkU -s /n/atom/plan9^

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-02 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Apr 2 17:49:51 EDT 2014, szymon.olewnic...@rid.pl wrote: > > if you do a pull as glenda, or alternately > > > > mount /srv/boot /n/root && > > 9fs atom && > > disk/mkfs -vkU -s /n/atom/plan9^`{pwd} -d . <{echo +} > > > > you can then try "mkusbboot -p `{echo +

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-02 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
> if you do a pull as glenda, or alternately > > mount /srv/boot /n/root && > 9fs atom && > disk/mkfs -vkU -s /n/atom/plan9^`{pwd} -d . <{echo +} > > you can then try "mkusbboot -p `{echo +}". this may actually work. srv: dial tcp!atom.9atom.org!fs:

Re: [9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-02 Thread erik quanstrom
> As I cannot force plan 9 to use my sata disk, I've decided to buy a sata to > usb convertor. > After compiling the usb tools on 9atom, I can find my disk under /dev/sdU1.0 > and now is the time to > prepare the disk partitions in order to install plan 9. Disk which I want to > use isn't empty

[9fans] Partitioning the disk

2014-04-01 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, As I cannot force plan 9 to use my sata disk, I've decided to buy a sata to usb convertor. After compiling the usb tools on 9atom, I can find my disk under /dev/sdU1.0 and now is the time to prepare the disk partitions in order to install plan 9. Disk which I want to use isn't empty (it con