[9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-15 Thread joseph turco
Hello all, I am a new user to bell labs plan9. I have it installed on my raspberry pi 400, and I'd also like to get it running on my old desktop as a file server, which ive been able to boot using legacy9s USB (don't have blank CDs for bell labs). I was wondering about something, I've been having

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-15 Thread joseph turco
Thank you to both of you for the responses. I guess getting deep into the man pages is how I'll have to go about running things. I'm actually considering taking the OS off my pi, and loading it onto the desktop I have as a CPU/file server. I can get legacy9 to boot on it, I just need to figure out

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-15 Thread joseph turco
and a cpu server on the side with drawterm/terms. This was all > 9front, which has some niceties for networked setups, including cpu > listeners for fs/auth to maintain without needing serial/gui/ssh access. > > On Oct 15, 2021, at 10:31 AM, joseph turco > wrote: > >  &g

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-15 Thread joseph turco
server, and cpu-boot from that, this > kinda comes for free... > > On 10/15/21, joseph turco wrote: > > Nice! I'm still understanding how to use the OS. I can't even get on the > > web as its complaining about DNS servers in abaco (I know mothra is > > prefe

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-16 Thread joseph turco
ess important for me personally. >> > >> > So get your feet wet! If you find you like the retro computing aspect >> > most, 9legacy is a great distro. If you are most interested in >> > modern/more experimental stuff, 9front is awesome. That being said, >>

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-18 Thread joseph turco
Thanks I got it to work! Now I have to fix the time. I did a cp /adm/timezone/Canada_Eastern /adm/timezone/local but get a permission denied error. I'm logged in as Glenda. On another note, my Ethernet is not working anymore on my "server" I'm trying to setup. You are correct that I would like to

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-20 Thread joseph turco
so the ethernet died on the desktop, im not sure why. it doesn't work in any linux distros i use as well, so that's not going to happen anymore. i also got a new mouse to use (a actual three button mouse with no scroll wheel) and richard millers rpi plan 9 doesnt work with it, and i cannot get 9fro

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-20 Thread joseph turco
sigrid: it spams this a bunch of times and then sits at the boot method line. sdhc: read error intr 2008002 stat 1fff i then press enter for the default local (or type local) and then it spams it again and then back to the boot method line. On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:05 PM Sigrid Solveig Haf

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-20 Thread joseph turco
I used to see sdhc errors because of > that - I've decided to boot from a usb flash drive only. I disabled > sdmmc/sdhc in the kernel config and rebuilt it to get rid of the > errors. > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 6:47 PM joseph turco > wrote: > > > > sigrid: > &

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-20 Thread joseph turco
thanks for resource Skip. if i ever get the ethernet working on my desktop ill try it out! On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 2:46 PM Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > FYI, I have some notes on PXE booting 9pi (Richards' 9legacy 32bit > port with 9front wireless support) on various RPi models. > > > https://docs.g