Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-10 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, John Floren wrote: > My problem was always forgetting to uncomment the keyfs line in cpurc. > I'd be able to log in as bootes but nothing else. Maybe the single most important document would be a set of key-value pairs: "I have this problem" "Then you need to thi

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-10 Thread John Floren
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Steve Simon wrote: >> I'm not really asking people to write better howtos.  I think >> the idea is fundamentally broken.  What we really need is some >> less narrative and more expository. > > I agree completely with this, my opinion is we need somthing that expla

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-10 Thread erik quanstrom
> I agree completely with this, my opinion is we need somthing that explains the > concepts of what has to be done and why, and provides pointers to where to get > the detailed information. unfortunately, it's hard to explain in a vaccuum. having a working system makes it much easier to come to g

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-10 Thread Steve Simon
> I'm not really asking people to write better howtos. I think > the idea is fundamentally broken. What we really need is some > less narrative and more expository. I agree completely with this, my opinion is we need somthing that explains the concepts of what has to be done and why, and provid

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-10 Thread John Stalker
> Synopsis: > do I give up trying to make a distributed plan 9 home network? > Is plan 9 worth the struggle? > The concepts are clearly superior, is it the implementation, is it > the lack of coherent/correct (imho) documentation? > > Longer background: ...skipping... > Where

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-09 Thread Corey
On Thursday 09 December 2010 3:53:25 Lloyd Caldwell wrote: > Where might I go for a walk thru in setting up a simple plan9 > installation, one cpu/auth/fs and one terminal? > Try this: http://mirror.9grid.fr/mirror.9grid.fr/plan9-cpu-auth-server-howto.html Cheers

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-09 Thread John Floren
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Lloyd Caldwell wrote: > > John, thanks, > >> >> If you follow the standalone CPU installation instructions on the wiki >> to the letter, you will have a cpu/auth/file server. It's then easy to >> export fossil to clients, just set up the configuration to listen on >

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-09 Thread erik quanstrom
> Intel(R) Boot Agent FE v4.1.16 > Copyright (C) 1997-2004, Intel Corporation > > CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 07 E9 33 CA 35 GUID: 18B58355 0CDA DA11 0080 > 35CA33E90700 > CLIENT IP: 10.0.1.7 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 10.0.1.6 > > Plan 9 from Bell Labs by PXE > ELCR: 0E20 > pcirouting: 8086/2483 a

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-09 Thread Lloyd Caldwell
John, thanks, If you follow the standalone CPU installation instructions on the wiki to the letter, you will have a cpu/auth/file server. It's then easy to export fossil to clients, just set up the configuration to listen on the appropriate port (the document you want is linked from the standa

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-09 Thread Steve Simon
Its good top remember the learning curve, ir does feel steep, and then suddenly... How far have you got installing your plan9 file/cpu/auth server? I assume you have booted a terminal successfully? here are some rough steps: install a terminal edit /lib/ndb/local to set up networ

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-09 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Dec 9 17:56:39 EST 2010, l...@xmission.com wrote: > Synopsis: > do I give up trying to make a distributed plan 9 home network? > Is plan 9 worth the struggle? > The concepts are clearly superior, is it the implementation, is it > the lack of coherent/correct (imho) docum

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-09 Thread John Floren
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Lloyd Caldwell wrote: > Synopsis: >        do I give up trying to make a distributed plan 9 home network? >        Is plan 9 worth the struggle? >        The concepts are clearly superior, is it the implementation, is it > the lack of coherent/correct (imho) documen

[9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

2010-12-09 Thread Lloyd Caldwell
Synopsis: do I give up trying to make a distributed plan 9 home network? Is plan 9 worth the struggle? The concepts are clearly superior, is it the implementation, is it the lack of coherent/correct (imho) documentation? Longer background: I noticed that the installation not