>many thinkpads will pxe boot. > >- erik Thanks, I'll try that! I'd have probably tried already, if I didn't have bad memories of netbooting OpenBSD on 24x sparc64 machines.
On 3/25/14, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Send 9fans mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.9fans.net/listinfo/9fans > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of 9fans digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: No regression tests (erik quanstrom) > 2. Re: more serial questions (erik quanstrom) > 3. hg and golang (Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan) > 4. Re: hg and golang (erik quanstrom) > 5. Re: hg and golang (Skip Tavakkolian) > 6. Re: hg and golang (Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan) > 7. Re: hg and golang (erik quanstrom) > 8. Re: 9front: /lib/ndb/local clobbered after edit w/ sam > (Michael Hansen) > 9. Re: 9front: /lib/ndb/local clobbered after edit w/ sam > (erik quanstrom) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:33:16 -0400 > From: erik quanstrom <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [9fans] No regression tests > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > On Tue Mar 25 01:51:36 EDT 2014, [email protected] wrote: >> A few weeks ago i wrote about an unkillable manager of usb barcode >> readers. That code worked perfectly for 5+ years, with absolutely no >> changes. >> >> IMHO the problem seems to be a change in Bell kernel sources, as under >> 9Atom all works as expected. >> >> Unfortunately I can't say what is the last working release, because >> the problem has been noted for the first time some weeks ago, but the >> kernel is rebuilt frequently and the sources are upgraded, non >> regularly, 3/4 times in a year. > > that's interesting. what state are these processes in what are > the backtraces? > > - erik > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:46:42 -0400 > From: erik quanstrom <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [9fans] more serial questions > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >> I didn't add that, your guess is as good as mine. > > ok. > >> That it was implemented after and I was short on time. They should. > > cool. i wanted to rule out some sort of odd h/w interaction. > > - erik > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:25:05 +0530 > From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <[email protected]> > To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]> > Subject: [9fans] hg and golang > Message-ID: > <caa6yd9vcqdus3wrhzue4k7t+iepcw2k7o+g1jeqfbfn5nsz...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello 9fans and plan9 hackers, > > Number of plan9 installations at my tiny bedroom in a corner in India, > went up from 1 to 2, 1st being a raspberry pi and now, a 9atom > installation on virtualbox that I wanted to mess with, as a cpu > system. > > I searched and didn't find a canonical way to install mercurial and > golang on plan9. Can someone point to me some instructions? I see from > the golang build dashboard[1] that golang on plan9 is reasonably > healthy. > > [1] http://build.golang.org/ > PS: This list is great. Digging up the archives has given me access to > bottomless pit of knowledge and wisdom! Thanks. > -- > Ramakrishnan > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:02:53 -0400 > From: erik quanstrom <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [9fans] hg and golang > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >> Number of plan9 installations at my tiny bedroom in a corner in India, >> went up from 1 to 2, 1st being a raspberry pi and now, a 9atom >> installation on virtualbox that I wanted to mess with, as a cpu >> system. > > hopefully i've got this correct. rc history to the rescue > python may or may not work on the standard distribution. there are some > ape patches that have not gone in yet. > > cd /sys/src > hget https://bitbucket.org/jas/cpython/get/2.7-plan9.tar.bz2 > |bunzip2|tar > xv > hget http://selenic.com/hg/archive/b96cb15ec9e0.tar.bz2 |bunzip2|tar xv > rm -f @LongLink > mv jas-cpython-cea9c7fcee30 cpython # details may vary > mv Mercurial-b96cb15ec9e0 hg # details may vary > cd cpython > mk > mk stage > mk install > > python has some odd troubles with its mkfile, so you might need to mk stage > more than once. > > - erik > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:07:49 -0700 > From: Skip Tavakkolian <[email protected]> > To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [9fans] hg and golang > Message-ID: > <cajsxfmjwjmf+bmgjhdgbn+wu-y4xn4rtyf6fv-_c5q2ke+_...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > hg and python you need are on sources. > % 9fs sources > % cd /n/sources/contrib/jas > > there is a compiled version here: > http://www.9legacy.org/download.html > > after that 'hg clone' the sources for Go, etc. > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello 9fans and plan9 hackers, >> >> Number of plan9 installations at my tiny bedroom in a corner in India, >> went up from 1 to 2, 1st being a raspberry pi and now, a 9atom >> installation on virtualbox that I wanted to mess with, as a cpu >> system. >> >> I searched and didn't find a canonical way to install mercurial and >> golang on plan9. Can someone point to me some instructions? I see from >> the golang build dashboard[1] that golang on plan9 is reasonably >> healthy. >> >> [1] http://build.golang.org/ >> PS: This list is great. Digging up the archives has given me access to >> bottomless pit of knowledge and wisdom! Thanks. >> -- >> Ramakrishnan >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://mail.9fans.net/private/9fans/attachments/20140325/630c87ad/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:02:12 +0530 > From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <[email protected]> > To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [9fans] hg and golang > Message-ID: > <caa6yd9x8wg8uquso82gcym+hhtd2tbxadrk5tbpj9bgsct6...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:32 PM, erik quanstrom <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> Number of plan9 installations at my tiny bedroom in a corner in India, >>> went up from 1 to 2, 1st being a raspberry pi and now, a 9atom >>> installation on virtualbox that I wanted to mess with, as a cpu >>> system. >> >> hopefully i've got this correct. rc history to the rescue >> python may or may not work on the standard distribution. there are some >> ape patches that have not gone in yet. >> >> cd /sys/src >> hget https://bitbucket.org/jas/cpython/get/2.7-plan9.tar.bz2 >> |bunzip2|tar xv >> hget http://selenic.com/hg/archive/b96cb15ec9e0.tar.bz2 >> |bunzip2|tar xv >> rm -f @LongLink >> mv jas-cpython-cea9c7fcee30 cpython # details may vary >> mv Mercurial-b96cb15ec9e0 hg # details may vary >> cd cpython >> mk > > Thank you Erik. > > I got an out of physical memory at this point, while in the middle of > the build. I will try increasing the memory (I am running on a > virtualbox instance) > >> mk stage >> mk install >> >> python has some odd troubles with its mkfile, so you might need to mk >> stage >> more than once. >> >> - erik >> > > > > -- > Ramakrishnan > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:35:28 -0400 > From: erik quanstrom <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [9fans] hg and golang > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >> Thank you Erik. >> >> I got an out of physical memory at this point, while in the middle of >> the build. I will try increasing the memory (I am running on a >> virtualbox instance) > > that's kind of odd. how much memory are you using, and can you send a > screenshot? > > - erik > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:19:17 -0700 > From: Michael Hansen <[email protected]> > To: 9fans <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [9fans] 9front: /lib/ndb/local clobbered after edit w/ > sam > Message-ID: > <CAPkKT5Fhbc_aYRV+-abFHxR6p-Bu=9gbryhw+f_962mseuj...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >>what ssd is it? >> >>-- >>cinap > > Probably the kind I would have had to buy out of the back of a van, before > eBay: > KingSpec KSD-PA25.6-032MS > (as reported by sysinfo) > > I thought I could get away with it, since the Thinkpad is mainly a > terminal. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:22:26 -0400 > From: erik quanstrom <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [9fans] 9front: /lib/ndb/local clobbered after edit w/ > sam > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >> Probably the kind I would have had to buy out of the back of a van, before >> eBay: >> KingSpec KSD-PA25.6-032MS >> (as reported by sysinfo) >> >> I thought I could get away with it, since the Thinkpad is mainly a >> terminal. > > many thinkpads will pxe boot. > > - erik > > > > End of 9fans Digest, Vol 119, Issue 55 > ************************************** >
