Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-14 Thread Kyle Laracey
On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 4:53:04 PM UTC-4, a...@9srv.net wrote: // It would be tres cool if this information was getting // mirrored in the Wiki. I've been copying over some of the more concise and complete reports, but yes: people with working setups should add their

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-14 Thread Kyle Laracey
On Monday, March 11, 2013 4:47:45 PM UTC-4, Matthew Veety wrote: On Mar 11, 2013, at 16:36, Bakul Shah wrote: Note: if your host uses wifi but no ethernet, bridged adapter won't work. That's card dependent. It needs to support promisc mode AFAIK. Not all cards support it. I

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-14 Thread Kyle Laracey
On Monday, March 11, 2013 12:36:25 PM UTC-4, erik quanstrom wrote: Neither have a very extensive description on their homepages. hmm. what kind of description are you expecting? - erik Sorry. I guess 9atom does explain that it adds specific hardware functionality and software,

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-14 Thread Kyle Laracey
On Monday, March 11, 2013 4:56:16 PM UTC-4, Bakul Shah wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:47:45 EDT Matthew Veety mve...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 11, 2013, at 16:36, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: Note: if your host uses wifi but no ethernet, bridged adapter won't

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-14 Thread Kyle Laracey
On Monday, March 11, 2013 4:36:38 PM UTC-4, Bakul Shah wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:50:07 BST David du Colombier wrote: I've been trying for about two days to get the stock Plan9 from Bell Labs to install with Networking under Virtual Box Bell Labs Plan 9 and networking

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

2013-03-14 Thread Kyle Laracey
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:04:03 AM UTC-4, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote: Hello, VirtualBox 4.2.6 on Mac OS X does *not* work with plan9.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data \ 'PLAN 9 - DEC 8 2012 04:00 ' Memory ranges: 128 - 1024 MB. Chipset: PII3X with/out I/O

[9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-11 Thread Kyle Laracey
Hello I've had difficulty installing the vanilla Plan9 from Bell Labs in VirtualBox / QEMU, and now I am going to try one of the forks, 9atom or 9Front, which both seem to have more hardware support / software. However, the descriptions on their homepages are brief; could someone please point

Re: [9fans] Can't mk CONF=9pcdisk -- gives error

2012-07-23 Thread Kyle Laracey
On Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:48:06 PM UTC-4, John Floren wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM, erik quanstrom lt;quans...@quanstro.netgt; wrote: gt;gt; But as Federico mentioned, you might not want pcdisk--that#39;s for gt;gt; running with a kfs root, which isn#39;t officially supported

Re: [9fans] Can't mk CONF=9pcdisk -- gives error

2012-07-19 Thread Kyle Laracey
On Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:16:16 AM UTC-4, Federico Benavento wrote: you#39;re using backquotes, why? that would be `{mk CONF=9pcdisk} in rc#39;s syntax. now to compile that kernel the syntax is: % mk #39;CONF=pcdisk#39; now are you sure you want a pcdisk? On Jul 19, 2012, at 6:07

Re: [9fans] Can't mk CONF=9pcdisk -- gives error

2012-07-19 Thread Kyle Laracey
On Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:17:47 AM UTC-4, Charles Forsyth wrote: 9pcdisk is the output file, not the configuration file. Also you need to quote the = because it is special to rc (assignment). Try/div     mk #39;CONF=pcdisk#39; On 19 July 2012 10:07, span dir=ltrlt;a