Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-17 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:14:17PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Mar 16 12:06:39 EDT 2014, szymon.olewnic...@rid.pl wrote: > > > Hi, > > today I've tried to boot plan9 on my computer. Sadly withou a success. > > I'm attaching screenshot of my computer after typing ctrl+t ctrl+t p. > > > >

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-18 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
> > 0.6.0 disk 01.01.8a 10de/03ec 0 4:ffa1 16 0.8.0 disk 01.01.85 > > 10de/03f6 5 0:d401 16 1:d081 16 2:d001 16 3:cc01 16 > > 4:c881 16 5:deefc000 4096 > > > > But I have no idea what does it means. I hope you will know. > > i do. this is an nvidia sata part, which is no

[9fans] Multi monitor setup

2014-03-19 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, as a new to Plan 9 I would like to know is there any support to dual monitor setup? Can I rotate monitor in plan 9? How does support of video cards looks like in general? BR, Szymon

Re: [9fans] Multi monitor setup

2014-03-20 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
>> is there any support to dual monitor setup? > >no. > >> Can I rotate monitor in plan 9? > >no. > >> How does support of video cards looks like in general? > >poor. > >see /sys/src/9/pc/vga*.c files. most of these are very old. the only >realiable way to use a video card on 32- and 64-bit intel p

Re: [9fans] Multi monitor setup

2014-03-20 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
> > Ok, I understeand. So, maybe it's a good idea as a gsoc proposal. Do you > > think that it will be hard to implement this features in nvidia cards, using > > nouveau project as a reference? > > yes, it would be quite tedious. the line between tedious and difficult > depends > on how much yo

[9fans] GSoC proposal: Replace language for wikifs

2014-03-20 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, I've just published a Summer of Code proposal for "Replace language for wikifs".[1] What do you think about my candidature. Maybe should I explain something more? BR, Szymon [1]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/hafron/5629499534213120

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-21 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
> > because when I boot > > the system from the image you have given me I cannot save any file. Does > > plan9 support saving the state of live session? > > that's a bit surprising. > > try > echo >/lib/emptyfile > > does that yield an error? Ok, now it's working. I'm not sure why it doesn

[9fans] Plan9 on flash memory

2014-03-27 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, is it safe to install Plan 9 on flash device? I'm asking about this becouse I remember that there was a problem with this on Linux becouse system saves data on the begining of the disk much more often than in the other blocks. BR, Szymon

[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

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

2014-04-03 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

2014-04-03 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

2014-04-06 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

2014-04-07 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

2014-04-10 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

[9fans] Plan9 users in Poland

2014-04-11 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
I'm very curious about that so I would like to ask if there are any Plan 9 users in Poland or am I the only one in my entire country? BR, Szymon

[9fans] Welcome Plan 9 community

2014-03-02 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, I've just registerd to this mailing list, so hello everyone. I've read about Plan 9 several months ago and fascinated with ideas behind this OS. Now I've decided to try the system on my own and although I don't know much about it yet, I believe that it can be something that I would like to wo

[9fans] Welcome Plan 9 community

2014-03-03 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, I've just registerd to this mailing list, so hello everyone. I've read about Plan 9 several months ago and fascinated with ideas behind this OS. Now I've decided to try the system on my own and although I don't know much about it yet, I believe that it can be something that I would like to wo

Re: [9fans] Welcome Plan 9 community

2014-03-03 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
> Hi, > I've just registerd to this mailing list, so hello everyone. > > I've read about Plan 9 several months ago and fascinated with ideas > behind this OS. Now I've decided to try the system on my own and although > I don't know much about it yet, I believe that it can be something that > I wo