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? 1. How to change the hostname - just edit /rc/bin/termrc and choose whatever I want to echo into /dev/sysname? Will that get reflected back out to the corporate net via DHCP? 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. Unrelated: 3. I would like to generate a PDF (or even .PS file) of Volume 1 of the manual. What's in the dist has dates from over 10 years ago. I tried running 'mk print.out' in the manual directory (as glenda) but got an error. (Erik - can you do that automatically as part of your build process? :-) So. How can I produce such a file suitable for duplex printing? (Bonus points if the intro(N) page of each section comes out first. :-) Please go easy on the Plan 9 newbie who has to unlearn 30+ years of Unix habits. Thanks! Arnold
