Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

2009-01-31 Thread Bruce Ellis
sauces ain't gone anywhere. my kitchen is still full of them. fluffy just had soy and honey on his pasta and pate. and i can 9fs sources at the same time. just my 3 euros worth. brucee On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:18 PM, wrote: >> Some level of smartness in how block traversal is made needs to >>

Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

2009-01-31 Thread Akshat Kumar
Ground Control to Major Bruce: I have the Acer Aspire One within reach. Do you have any specific plans? check ignitions, ak

Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

2009-01-31 Thread Bruce Ellis
Major Tom to Planet Earth. I have no problems with tiny PCs. The eeePCs are still the best bet. My Hellenic Lapdog is going to Brazil with me in a few hours. brucee On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > Ground Control to Major Bruce: > I have the Acer Aspire One within reach. >

[9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread Akshat Kumar
I've been trying to install Plan 9 on my most used computer here, but the install CD I've made has been giving me problems (I've used Nero on Windows to create it): when I try to boot into the Live CD, at a very early stage (actually, just after asking "root is from"), it reports "I/O read error" m

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread erik quanstrom
> I've been trying to install Plan 9 on my most > used computer here, but the install CD I've > made has been giving me problems > (I've used Nero on Windows to create it): > when I try to boot into the Live CD, at > a very early stage (actually, just after asking > "root is from"), it reports "I/O

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread blstuart
> so I immediately go into rc with `!rc' at the install > rio window, and upon trying `mount /dev/sdC0/data', > I again get the same "I/O read error" message, so > it is unable to mount the data. > > And yet, the CD data is readable from a mount > within Linux. How is the CD drive installed? /de

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread Akshat Kumar
> How is the CD drive installed? /dev/sdC0 seems I might have forgotten what it was. I'll check soon and get back to you on that. > BLS Thanks, ak

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread Akshat Kumar
lspci -nvv > lspci.out attached Thanks, ak lspci.out Description: Binary data

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread erik quanstrom
> How is the CD drive installed? /dev/sdC0 seems > definitely wrong for the CD. If it's the master on > a second IDE controller (the most common case), > you want /dev/sdD0. If it's the slave on the first > controller, you want /dev/sdC1. great point. i don't think there's any problem with run

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 31, 2009, at 5:33 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: if someone's itching for a project, the installer could use a little touch up. The program to detect where to install from, /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/ mountdist, is good. The only problem seems to be

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread erik quanstrom
> > if someone's itching for a project, the installer could use > > a little touch up. > > The program to detect where to install from, /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/ > mountdist, is good. The only problem seems to be with the plan9.ini > file, /sys/lib/dist/pc/plan9.ini.cd, which specifically asks to

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread Akshat Kumar
OK, so I'm just getting caught up on the replies here so far. As far as /dev/sdC0 goes -- BLS is right, it was really /dev/sdD0, and I remembered incorrectly. That is, the CD ROM Drive is, indeed, second IDE master.

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread erik quanstrom
> OK, so I'm just getting caught up on the > replies here so far. > > As far as /dev/sdC0 goes -- BLS is right, > it was really /dev/sdD0, and I remembered > incorrectly. That is, the CD ROM Drive is, > indeed, second IDE master. i think it's really likely that this change needs to be move from t

[9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread Kenji Arisawa
Hello, Pegasus 2.6 is released with new WebDAV script written in Lua. Take a look at http://plan9/remoty/pegasus/eman-2.6/ for more details. Enjoy Kenji Arisawa

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread lucio
> Pegasus 2.6 is released with new WebDAV script written in Lua. > Take a look at http://plan9/remoty/pegasus/eman-2.6/ for more details. We need a little bit more than "plan9" in the host name :-) ++L

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread John Barham
Kenji Arisawa wrote: > Pegasus 2.6 is released with new WebDAV script written in Lua. > Take a look at http://plan9/remoty/pegasus/eman-2.6/ for more details. Do you have a non-local URL host name?

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread Kenji Arisawa
Sorry, http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/pegasus/eman-2.6/ Kenji Arisawa On 2009/02/01, at 13:41, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: Pegasus 2.6 is released with new WebDAV script written in Lua. Take a look at http://plan9/remoty/pegasus/eman-2.6/ for more details. We need a little bit more than "plan

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread lucio
> The only problem seems to be with the plan9.ini > file, /sys/lib/dist/pc/plan9.ini.cd, which specifically asks to boot > from /dev/sdD0 If I understand the handling of the bootfile and bootargs, multiple entries for most variables cause a menu prompt. But that does not apply here, you're re

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread Kenji Arisawa
Sorry, http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/pegasus/eman-2.6/ Kenji Arisawa On 2009/02/01, at 13:41, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: Pegasus 2.6 is released with new WebDAV script written in Lua. Take a look at http://plan9/remoty/pegasus/eman-2.6/ for more details. We need a little bit more than "plan

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread andrey mirtchovski
http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/pegasus/eman-2.6/

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread John Barham
> Pegasus 2.6 is released with new WebDAV script written in Lua. Interesting that you used Lua. I think it's generally under-appreciated but IMO is very well designed and philosophically a good fit for Plan 9. However, inasmuch as you had to build a custom interpreter to add features for Pegasus

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread erik quanstrom
> However, inasmuch as you had to build a custom > interpreter to add features for Pegasus this exposes a weakness of > Plan 9 in that it can't dynamically load libraries at run-time which > is the normal extension mechanism for scripting languages on other > platforms. pegasus is written in c, no

Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released

2009-01-31 Thread John Barham
> the argument that if the normal extension > mechanism for scripting languages is x, > thereforenot having x is a weakness seems > a version of argumentum ad populum. > > doesn't dynamic loading seem at odds with the > tools approach? the more complex the interface, > the less general the tool.

[9fans] Dynamic loading et al (Was: Pegasus 2.6 is released)

2009-01-31 Thread lucio
> it can't dynamically load libraries at run-time which > is the normal extension mechanism for scripting languages on other > platforms. Let me sneak in here, irrespective of Erik's objections. My wild attempts at getting GCC/G++ working have led me to believe that the right idea is going to be,