[9fans] 9atom fails to boot on ThinkPat T400

2011-01-13 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Hi, I want to install 9atom on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. T400 uses the ICH9M-E/M SATA controller. Both the CD-ROM and the internal HDD are on the same SATA controller. When I boot 9atom, it prompts me with: Boot devices fd0 sdE0!9fat boot from: sdE1!cdboot!9pcflop.gz boot from: It seems that it

Re: [9fans] 9atom fails to boot on ThinkPad T400

2011-01-13 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: I want to install 9atom on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. T400 uses the ICH9M-E/M SATA controller. Both the CD-ROM and the internal HDD are on the same SATA controller. [...] Do you think it's a bug that prevents the CD-ROM from being detected? Any suggestions on what to do

[9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
Hello 9fans ... I'm _totally_ new to Plan9! Two days ago I had never heard of it. Yesterday I DLed the LiveCD - now I want to know more. The closest I've come to such an OS as Plan9, is the Native Oberon OS. I have a partition which I can overwrite. Does the LiveCD installation process allow me

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread andrey mirtchovski
When you boot the live cd you'll have a pretty good idea whether your system is supported -- if things are OK you'll get to a gui with installation information. You'll be able to figure out whether you want to try it or not even before you get to the hard drive partitioning :) There's no 'other

Re: [9fans] 9atom fails to boot on ThinkPad T400

2011-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
I must mention that I also tried installing with SATA controller in IDE mode, and that works (in Plan9 works but only with DMA disabled). Maybe this is relevant. Thanks you, you should be able to type pcihinv at the 9load prompt. that output would be useful. just send a picture offline. -

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Jacob Todd
On Jan 13, 2011 9:32 AM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: Hello 9fans ... I'm _totally_ new to Plan9! Two days ago I had never heard of it. Yesterday I DLed the LiveCD - now I want to know more. The closest I've come to such an OS as Plan9, is the Native Oberon OS. I have a

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Jacob Todd wrote: On Jan 13, 2011 9:32 AM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: Hello 9fans ... I'm _totally_ new to Plan9! Two days ago I had never heard of it. Yesterday I DLed the LiveCD - now I want to know more. The closest I've come to such an OS as

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, andrey mirtchovski wrote: When you boot the live cd you'll have a pretty good idea whether your system is supported -- if things are OK you'll get to a gui with installation information. You'll be able to figure out whether you want to try it or not even before you get to

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
When I start the install process from the Live CD, I'll probably be asked to choose a partition where I want Plan9 to live, right? I'll choose one; it'll warn me that the partition is already in use, do I want to overwrite it? I'll reply, yes, and BOOM the partition is committed to Plan9.

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, erik quanstrom wrote: When I start the install process from the Live CD, I'll probably be asked to choose a partition where I want Plan9 to live, right? I'll choose one; it'll warn me that the partition is already in use, do I want to overwrite it? I'll reply, yes,

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, erik quanstrom wrote: When I start the install process from the Live CD, I'll probably be asked to choose a partition where I want Plan9 to live, right? I'll choose one; it'll warn me that the

Re: [9fans] 9atom fails to boot on ThinkPad T400

2011-01-13 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
you should be able to type pcihinv at the 9load prompt. that output would be useful.  just send a picture offline. Tried sending the picture off list, but your SMTP server rejects me for some reason so I put it here: http://i.imgur.com/9dO07.jpg Thanks, -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
Zero problems! No OS install tried to mess with another partition. So, are you being overly cautious here, or is there a real danger that Plan9 has a run-away? I haven´t seen Plan 9 do this, but better safe than sorry... i've never seen this myself, but i recall this discussion

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, erik quanstrom wrote: Zero problems! No OS install tried to mess with another partition. So, are you being overly cautious here, or is there a real danger that Plan9 has a run-away? I haven´t seen Plan 9 do this, but better safe than sorry... i've never

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
@Gorka Guardiola @Tassilo Philipp Thanks for the warnings, and friendly advice :) I think I'll just use a bare 2nd HDD on the same machine, or a junker box kicking around. Do you guys know if Plan9 will boot off a slave HDD? -- Duke

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Tassilo Philipp
If I'm not mistaken, you should be able to edit the plan9.ini file on a PC, to set the source you want to boot from. However, I did that only once, and I don't remember the details... look up plan9.ini(8) (http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/8/plan9.ini), boot(8) (http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/8/boot)

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jan 13 11:53:18 EST 2011, tphil...@potion-studios.com wrote: If I'm not mistaken, you should be able to edit the plan9.ini file on a PC, to set the source you want to boot from. However, I did that only once, and I don't remember the details... look up plan9.ini(8)

Re: [9fans] 9atom fails to boot on ThinkPad T400

2011-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jan 13 10:43:46 EST 2011, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: you should be able to type pcihinv at the 9load prompt. that output would be useful.  just send a picture offline. Tried sending the picture off list, but your SMTP server rejects me for some reason so I put it here:

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
regarding the occasional missing vid/did's it seems that frequently it involves adding the did to the right place in the corresponding driver and recompiling. it would be a nice if there was a way to map new vid/did's to known driver+did's in plan9.ini.

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, erik quanstrom wrote: On Thu Jan 13 11:53:18 EST 2011, tphil...@potion-studios.com wrote: If I'm not mistaken, you should be able to edit the plan9.ini file on a PC, to set the source you want to boot from. However, I did that only once, and I don't remember the

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Tassilo Philipp wrote: If I'm not mistaken, you should be able to edit the plan9.ini file on a PC, to set the source you want to boot from. However, I did that only once, and I don't remember the details... look up plan9.ini(8)

[9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
Just read: http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/0intro [quote] Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from separate machines acting as terminals, CPU servers, and file servers.[/quote] Does the above imply, that ideally Plan9 should be running on a LAN? Not so good as the OS on a

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread dukeofperl
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Duke Normandin wrote: Just read: http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/0intro [quote] Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from separate machines acting as terminals, CPU servers, and file servers.[/quote] Does the above imply, that ideally Plan9 should

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: Just read: http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/0intro [quote] Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from separate machines acting as terminals, CPU servers, and file servers.[/quote] Does the above

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
if the intent is to get a full understanding of what an operational Plan 9 environment is like, using VMware or Qemu to create VM's for various roles (auth/cpu, fs, term) connected by a virtual network is an excellent option. i've successfully used this setup for experimenting/testing and for

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: if the intent is to get a full understanding of what an operational Plan 9 environment is like, using VMware or Qemu to create VM's for various roles (auth/cpu, fs, term) connected by a virtual network is an excellent option. I've successfully used

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Jacob Todd
Maybe a gigabyte if you used a separate vm for cpu, auth and the fs. You can combine cpu/auth and even the file server into one if you wanted. On Jan 13, 2011 2:34 PM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: if the intent is to get a full

[9fans] Nvidia announces it will do ARM based desktop and server CPUs

2011-01-13 Thread Aharon Robbins
For those of you wanting something different than Intel Architecture, Nvidia plans to give it to you. It should be interesting. http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/nvidia-announces-project-denver-arm-cpu-for-the-desktop/

Re: [9fans] mk (from plan9ports) modification time resolution issue?

2011-01-13 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:40, Henning Schild henn...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 10:51:56 +0100 Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote:     :) I've kind of feared that this is the reason... :)     But still how do people handle the issue? I guess in most

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, David Leimbach wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: Just read: http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/0intro [quote] Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from separate machines acting as terminals, CPU

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
depending on the host os, 1g is sufficient. i've never needed to use more than 256M for plan9 vm's. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: if the intent is to get a full understanding of what an operational Plan

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:16:25 PST Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: if the intent is to get a full understanding of what an operational Plan 9 environment is like, using VMware or Qemu to create VM's for various roles (auth/cpu, fs, term) connected by a virtual network is an

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread John Floren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/13/2011 11:40 AM, Duke Normandin wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, David Leimbach wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: Just read: http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/0intro [quote] Plan 9 is a

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: if the intent is to get a full understanding of what an operational Plan 9 environment is like, using VMware or Qemu to

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jan 13 14:47:52 EST 2011, bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:16:25 PST Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: if the intent is to get a full understanding of what an operational Plan 9 environment is like, using VMware or Qemu to create VM's for

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: [snip] If you only have one computer available and have to dual-boot, you can actually do pretty good with a simple, standalone terminal (this is what gets installed by default). You can then get an account at one or two of the public Plan 9 servers

Re: [9fans] Nvidia announces it will do ARM based desktop and server CPUs

2011-01-13 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Good news :) On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Aharon Robbins arn...@skeeve.com wrote: For those of you wanting something different than Intel Architecture, Nvidia plans to give it to you. It should be interesting.

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread John Floren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/13/2011 12:24 PM, Duke Normandin wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: [snip] If you only have one computer available and have to dual-boot, you can actually do pretty good with a simple, standalone terminal (this is what gets

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Tassilo Philipp
Can I use Plan9 standalone in a dedicated partition? Yes, of course!

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: [snip] Yes. You just stick in the CD and do a basic install. When you're done, you get all the programs that ship with Plan 9; it's very usable, you can connect to various Plan 9 servers or FTP to move files around and stuff. I see! I mis-understood

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Brian L. Stuart
I could run a headless box as a Plan9 auth/cpu, fs server. Then, if I want to this Plan9 server, is there a minimum Plan9 install that I could put on the spare partition that I have? With this setup available, there are several ways you can go. As a lot of people have suggested, you can

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Brian L. Stuart
I see! I mis-understood what you meant by Plan 9 terminal. I thought that the Plan 9 Live CD gave you a choice of either installing the Plan 9 server or a Plan 9 client/terminal. I now see that that there are terminals available on various OSes to connect to a Plan 9 server. It has

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Brian L. Stuart wrote: [snip] It has become a little confusing over the last 20 years. In a way too brief way, here are the basic incarnations of Plan9: - Natively running the current Plan9 kernel - Stand-alone terminal with its own fs - Terminal (possibly

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Brian L. Stuart wrote: I could run a headless box as a Plan9 auth/cpu, fs server. Then, if I want to this Plan9 server, is there a minimum Plan9 install that I could put on the spare partition that I have? With this setup available, there are several ways you can go.

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread John Floren
At Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:37:52 -0700 (MST), Duke Normandin wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: I think you mentioned in another message that you have a headless box available; I recommend temporarily hooking that up to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, then installing a

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Federico G. Benavento
yes, I dual booted Plan 9 and windows for years, it worked great, just boot the cdroom and follow the instructions, choose the empty space or partition from the installer, etc. you'll end up with a standalone terminal, no need for a cpu server in the beginning, later you could just rebuild the

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Federico G. Benavento
I've trashed my partition table more than once in the past years TeskDisk always saved my ass, I just booted a linux live cd, download the static binary and fixed my partition table... http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net

Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Federico G. Benavento wrote: I've trashed my partition table more than once in the past years TeskDisk always saved my ass, I just booted a linux live cd, download the static binary and fixed my partition table... http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk So have I!

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread blstuart
him. An even more Plan9-like way of doing it is to net-boot a Plan9 terminal from your cpu/auth/fs machine. If you want to boot your main box that way, you can without installing anything on it. From within Linux, you can do the same thing in virtualbox. In fact, I have a virtualbox

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Federico G. Benavento wrote: yes, I dual booted Plan 9 and windows for years, it worked great, just boot the cdroom and follow the instructions, choose the empty space or partition from the installer, etc. you'll end up with a standalone terminal, no need for a cpu server

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: At Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:37:52 -0700 (MST), Duke Normandin wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: I think you mentioned in another message that you have a headless box available; I recommend temporarily hooking that up to a monitor,

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
The Plan ( server would have to have enough disk space to store its own stuff, plus the workstation's file system? Could get dicey, if you've got a few workstations net-booting, could it not? It can. The clients all share a single copy of the common files, but each user will have his

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread John Floren
On 1/13/2011 7:42 PM, Duke Normandin wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: At Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:37:52 -0700 (MST), Duke Normandin wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: I think you mentioned in another message that you have a headless box available; I recommend

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: [snip] So the NIC in your Linux box must have to be PXE capable? It depends. If you want to PXE boot the box directly and have it run the Plan9 kernel natively, then at some point, something will have to be PXE capable. That could be the

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
works on a rather cool block-coalescing system. I highly recommend reading the paper. On a system with a small disk, it's a good idea to go without Venti, because of the space required. oh, the irony. - erik

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: On 1/13/2011 7:42 PM, Duke Normandin wrote: What is Venti again? Venti is the archival storage for Plan 9. Basically, new files and changes to files get written to the Fossil file system. If Venti exists, those changes get written to Venti; Venti

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, erik quanstrom wrote: The Plan ( server would have to have enough disk space to store its own stuff, plus the workstation's file system? Could get dicey, if you've got a few workstations net-booting, could it not? It can. The clients all share a single copy

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread John Floren
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: On 1/13/2011 7:42 PM, Duke Normandin wrote: What is Venti again? Venti is the archival storage for Plan 9. Basically, new files and changes to files get written to the Fossil

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: [snip] What is the minimum HDD capacity required to run an Auth/cpu/fs server with Venti support? There's no hard and fast rule, really, but your Fossil partition needs to be

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread Jacob Todd
On Jan 13, 2011 11:33 PM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Duke Normandin dukeofp...@ml1.net wrote: [snip] What is the minimum HDD capacity required to run an Auth/cpu/fs server with Venti support?