On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Purple_Q <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. mount a cd, usb stick, or another local filesystem. > The mount command is nothing like what i'm used to on linux or BSD, > and the /mnt folder is kind of confusing. How can I mount/ummount > things and approx. where do they end up?
If you are talking about a local filesystem, you will need to run the file server first. Then it gives you a connection somewhere, for example by posting it in a file in srv. Then you mount the connection, see the examples in the man page mount(1). Some devices need some other extra programs be run first, which provide files abstracting the disks for the fileserver to use, like usb which needs another server. All this is normally done in scripts already provided. For example, to mount a usb stick, you simply run usbfat: see usb(4). Take a look at /bin/*: as examples to mount fat partitions and floppies. Another simpler example run by hand is for a cd 9660srv -f /dev/sdC1/data mount /srv/9660 /n/cdrom /n generates mount points on demand and is the standard place to mount things, see mntgen(4). > > 2. Installing software. I have no net connection in Plan9 because it > does not recognize my ethernet card. Do I just take something, say > a .tbz from the sources contrib directory online, put somewhere and > decompress it, then just type "mk install", am I missing something? You are probably out of luck, see if there is a similar one and start tweaking. There is extra software in sources in contrib and sources. 9fs sources, look around. Some of it is packed using this. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/ > > Any other user-end, desktop administration type of things you feel is > worth pointing out, please feel free to throw them in too or point me > to any specific threads or documents that might help out. I've read Take a look at: http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/newbie-guide.pdf http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/plan_9_wiki/ And enjoy :-). -- - curiosity sKilled the cat
