Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD

2012-03-23 Thread Sauparna
I tried several things, and help, again, will be appreciated. With the little knowledge I have I will try to explain the procedures. @Thierry: I have a MBR, and not GPT. I have Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) and dual-boot through GRUB; as is the standard setup found when Ubuntu is installed second

Re: [9fans] known working wifi cards

2012-03-23 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 03/22/2012 09:14 PM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: >> thinking about patching a Linux driver module to record everything it >> does and every command it receives; snooping with driver help. >> > > Wireshark can snoop usb traffic. It is easy and gives you all the > information you > probably need. > >

Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD

2012-03-23 Thread Sauparna
I tried several things and help, again, is appreciated. @erik, @cinap: 9front and 9atom booted properly. 9atom live-boot option didn't work, but installation proceeded to [mountdist]. At that point I couldn't figure out a way to point it correctly to the distribution, my linux partition, though su

Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD

2012-03-23 Thread Sauparna
I tried several things, and help, again, is appreciated. @Thiery: I could key in characters at the 'boot from' prompt, put didn't try anything then. I have an MBR and not GPT, it's a dual-booted system with Ubuntu having been installed second, after Windows. I used to boot through GRUB, as is t

Re: [9fans] known working wifi cards

2012-03-23 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 03/22/2012 09:14 PM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: >> thinking about patching a Linux driver module to record everything it >> does and every command it receives; snooping with driver help. >> > > Wireshark can snoop usb traffic. It is easy and gives you all the > information you > probably need. > >

Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD

2012-03-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> @erik, @cinap: > 9front and 9atom booted properly. 9atom live-boot option didn't work, > but installation proceeded to [mountdist]. At that point I couldn't > figure out a way to point it correctly to the distribution, my linux > partition, though suggested, wouldn't mount. I had a plan9.iso ther

Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD

2012-03-23 Thread cinap_lenrek
theres a bug in plan9 fdisk causing partitions to get forcefully rounded to cylinder boundries. causing existing partitions to "move" even if they where never modified due to wrong disk geometry detection or just non-cylinder-aligned partitioning. this was fixed in 9front long ago. -- cinap

Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD

2012-03-23 Thread Sauparna
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:42 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > i don't know why your mbr is getting wacked. that's antisocial. > erik, just a point here. I think I mislead you. My partition got spoiled, the mbr was fine, for I got a grub prompt (in stead of the the usual grub screen). It must have bee

Re: [9fans] Question about usage of Plan 9 based os systems

2012-03-23 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:17:54 +0100 Mathieu Lonjaret wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis > wrote: > > > I now use Plan 9 for everything that does not involve 3D graphics, the > > www, or email. The latter is because as far as I'm aware there's no way > > to get a thread

Re: [9fans] known working wifi cards

2012-03-23 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:44:07 +0100 Gorka Guardiola wrote: > > thinking about patching a Linux driver module to record everything it > > does and every command it receives; snooping with driver help. > > > > Wireshark can snoop usb traffic. It is easy and gives you all the > information you > pro

[9fans] who would have guessed.

2012-03-23 Thread Bruce Ellis
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