relax On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Eris Discordia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> dispite the gratitous ad hominem, i'm sorry that this is difficult. > > Don't take it seriously, erik. Even if you do, what's wrong with being a > cold, insensitive, unsympathetic computer wizard (that's what high IQ and > low EQ means)? There are a number of them out there, in very nice positions, > exalted by many admirers from around the world. It's a good way of being. > > --On Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:43 AM -0400 erik quanstrom > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> can you please point me to the place where i can download the source of >>>> plan 9. Also, how to rebuild the code once i get it. >>> >>> If you want to try Erik's patch, you could install plan 9 on real >>> hardware or under a different virtual machine like qemu or vmware, and >>> follow the instructions at >>> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Compiling_kernels/ >>> >>> Or just keep using the other VM and give up on Microsoft Virtual PC >>> for the moment. >> >> this is a repeat of a private email; i didn't think >> this was going to be generally interesting. >> >> option 1: >> assuming the live cd boots, there is a test kernel on sources >> in my contrib area which can be put into 9fat without booting >> from the virtual hard drive. >> >> open a new window in the installer. i'll assume that /dev/sdC0 >> is your virtual hard drive. >> >> ; cd /dev/sdC0 >> ; disk/fdisk -p data>ctl ; disk/prep -p plan9>ctl >> ; 9fat: >> ; cd /n/9fat: >> ; 9fs sources >> ; cp /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/9pcf.gz 9pcide.gz >> now edit plan9.ini. add a second bootfile line like: >> bootfile=sdC0!9fat!9pcide.gz >> >> now reboot and hope. :-) >> >> (for those following along at home, the sdata.c i'm working from >> is in /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/sdata.c.) >> >> option 2: >> install onto aoe storage. vblade >> >> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130453&package_id= >> 143790 runs on linux, if you have a linux machine. or perhaps you could >> run it on virtual pc. (there's a version for plan 9, too.) >> you'll need to put these lines into your plan9.ini >> >> # assuming that your vblade is running as 42.0 >> # and you are using ether0 and ether1 to serve aoe: >> >> aoeif=ether0 ether1 >> aoedev=f!#æ/aoe/42.0 >> >> (in any event, there are many ways to try to get this working. >> e.g. if you had a seperate machine as a fileserver, you could boot >> from it and be more free to experiment.) >> >> dispite the gratitous ad hominem, i'm sorry that this is difficult. >> unfortunately, i don't have a windows box or virtual pc. thus >> i can't properly test the change, even though it seems required >> by the ata spec. >> >> even if i did, it's presumptious to assume that the folks at the >> labs have the time to review changes and incorporate them. >> >> - erik >> >> > >
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