[9fans] first questions from a lurker

2014-03-10 Thread arnold
Hello All. I've been a lurker on 9fans for many years. Today I finally did an install - +9atom.iso.bz2 into a virtual box VM. The VM is NAT'ed to a corporate network and I can ping by IP address with no problem. First questions. 0. How to see my IP address? Cat a file in /net/... somewhere?

Re: [9fans] first questions from a lurker

2014-03-10 Thread arnold
And of course, I forgot another question: 4. How to do the moral equivalent of shutdown -h now? Thanks, Arnold - arn...@skeeve.com wrote: Hello All. I've been a lurker on 9fans for many years. Today I finally did an install - +9atom.iso.bz2 into a virtual box VM.

Re: [9fans] first questions from a lurker

2014-03-10 Thread Peter Hull
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:41 PM, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: First questions. I'm new too but I'll have a go, then someone will correct me! 0. How to see my IP address? Cat a file in /net/... somewhere? cat /net/ndb 1. How to change the hostname - just edit /rc/bin/termrc and choose

Re: [9fans] first questions from a lurker

2014-03-10 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 10 March 2014 14:41, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: 0. How to see my IP address? Cat a file in /net/... somewhere? cat /net/ipselftab shows all local IP addresses configured in the IP stack #I0. (In Plan 9, you can have more than one independent IP stack: #I0, #I1, ... .)

Re: [9fans] first questions from a lurker

2014-03-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
Welcome to the party. On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:41 , arn...@skeeve.com wrote: 0. How to see my IP address? Cat a file in /net/... somewhere? As Charles said, 'cat /net/ipselftab'. You most likely want the lines with 'u' in the flags filed (third column), which will most likely include just the

Re: [9fans] first questions from a lurker

2014-03-10 Thread erik quanstrom
4. How to do the moral equivalent of shutdown -h now? fshalt -h - erik

Re: [9fans] first questions from a lurker

2014-03-10 Thread erik quanstrom
2. How to use DHCP to get to the corporate DNS servers? (This worked pretty much OOTB on the labs dist, but I think that 9atom will be the better match for the work we want to do.) Right now all hostname lookups (via ping) fail. i hope this isn't too redundant. i have a little

Re: [9fans] first questions from a lurker

2014-03-10 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:41:12 MDT arn...@skeeve.com wrote: Hello All. I've been a lurker on 9fans for many years. Today I finally did an install - +9atom.iso.bz2 into a virtual box VM. The VM is NAT'ed to a corporate network and I can ping by IP address with no problem. First questions.

Re: [9fans] first questions from a lurker

2014-03-10 Thread arnold
Pardon my not replying individually - thanks all of you for the answers! I'm looking forward to climbing this learning curve. :-) Arnold

[9fans] About plan9.ini

2014-03-10 Thread Adriano Verardo
I've Plan9 on sdCO and sometimes want to boot from sdE0 (CFlash on ide) or from a usb key. The other devices boots but it seems that the used plan9.ini is always from sdC0. Probably something wrong on the CF/key devs I built. But, just to be sure, shouldn't always be used the plan9.ini from the

Re: [9fans] About plan9.ini

2014-03-10 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Mar 10 17:53:54 EDT 2014, adriano.vera...@mail.com wrote: I've Plan9 on sdCO and sometimes want to boot from sdE0 (CFlash on ide) or from a usb key. The other devices boots but it seems that the used plan9.ini is always from sdC0. Probably something wrong on the CF/key devs I built.

Re: [9fans] About plan9.ini

2014-03-10 Thread erik quanstrom
according to the atmel docs, it's interrupt in, bulk out. does this make sense? http://www.atmel.com/Images/doc4322.pdf. - erik

Re: [9fans] About plan9.ini

2014-03-10 Thread Adriano Verardo
erik quanstrom ha scritto: On Mon Mar 10 17:53:54 EDT 2014, adriano.vera...@mail.com wrote: I've Plan9 on sdCO and sometimes want to boot from sdE0 (CFlash on ide) or from a usb key. The other devices boots but it seems that the used plan9.ini is always from sdC0. Probably something wrong on

Re: [9fans] About plan9.ini

2014-03-10 Thread erik quanstrom
What about Lab's 9load or 9Load on old 9Atom distros ? with 9load, you've got no options. 9load is just working against the machine. - erik

Re: [9fans] About plan9.ini

2014-03-10 Thread Adriano Verardo
erik quanstrom ha scritto: What about Lab's 9load or 9Load on old 9Atom distros ? with 9load, you've got no options. 9load is just working against the machine. - erik Not sure to have unserstood. Does it mean that plan9.ini is sequentially searched in a fixed order no matter what is the

Re: [9fans] About plan9.ini

2014-03-10 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Mar 10 19:07:49 EDT 2014, adriano.vera...@mail.com wrote: erik quanstrom ha scritto: What about Lab's 9load or 9Load on old 9Atom distros ? with 9load, you've got no options. 9load is just working against the machine. - erik Not sure to have unserstood. Does it mean that