Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-07 Thread erik quanstrom
I've tried booting from usd cdrom, usb stick both 9labs and 9legacy. it does not recognize them. this is ICH9R that's claimed to be supported. I'm going to try one that has IDE support and ICH9R so it can boot from cdrom and hopefully then recognize the sata chipset, like this one:

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-07 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Jun 29 14:21:20 EDT 2014, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: 1) UEFI bios I know that 9load and friends can't handle UEFI bios, but I'm guessing if it's possible to use GRUB and chainload Plan9 when the bios is UEFI. Is that possible ? yes, this is possible. the plan9 kernel can

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-03 Thread erik quanstrom
i notice one bit in this thread that doesn't reflect how things really work. drives get labled C or D if they are blind probed at the usual i/o port locations; otherwise if they are discovered via pci space (even if at the standard port locations) they are labled starting with E. ahci drives

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-02 Thread David du Colombier
http://9legacy.org/download/9spirit.iso.bz2 winrar says unexpected end of archive when extracting... That's surprising, it works fine here with bzip2 on Plan 9 or Linux. Also, these CD images are generated using the same scripts as the Bell Labs ones (ie compressed with bzip2 -9). % hget -o

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-02 Thread Balaji
ok this download worked, may be problem from my side. however, same outcome: foidn partition #S/sdE0/data 9 625,142,448 disks: sdE0 .. sdE5 trying sdE0:5...dosinit: can't open #S/sdE0:5/9fat dosinit #S/sdE0:5/9fat failed On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:29 AM, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-01 Thread balaji
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Pierre-Jean pl...@utroff.org wrote: Helped by the various answers and a promotion on a webstore, I've purchased a supermicro x9SCAA motherboard. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/X9/X9SCAA.cfm That might be working out of the box with one or

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-01 Thread balaji
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:20 AM, balaji balaji.srinivasa+pl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Pierre-Jean pl...@utroff.org wrote: Helped by the various answers and a promotion on a webstore, I've purchased a supermicro x9SCAA motherboard.

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-01 Thread David du Colombier
I've tried booting from usd cdrom, usb stick both 9labs and 9legacy. it does not recognize them. this is ICH9R that's claimed to be supported. ICH9R should be supported, but the sdiahci driver is not present in the installation kernel (pcflop) from the Bell Labs CD image. You may try this

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-01 Thread Balaji
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:02 AM, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried booting from usd cdrom, usb stick both 9labs and 9legacy. it does not recognize them. this is ICH9R that's claimed to be supported. ICH9R should be supported, but the sdiahci driver is not present in the

[9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-06-29 Thread Pierre-Jean
Hello 9fans ! I've discovered Plan9 several years ago, and time to time, I read some documentation or walk throught the archive of this list. And it seems that I'm convinced by plan9 conception. Now, I'd like to give plan9 a real try. And since I need some hardware for that task, I'm querying

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-06-29 Thread Nick Owens
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:32:44AM +0200, Pierre-Jean wrote: 4) Obvious hardware More generally, what do you think is the actual obvious hardware that one can find to build a file server and a cpu server for home usage ? the obvious hardware is a thinkpad. hello from 9front on an X301.

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-06-29 Thread arisawa
look http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/hardware/ 2014/06/29 18:32、Pierre-Jean pl...@utroff.org のメール: 4) Obvious hardware More generally, what do you think is the actual obvious hardware that one can find to build a file server and a cpu server for home usage ?

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Simon
Welcome to a clean and simple OS. At home I run a supermicro dual 330 atom motherboard which I use as a combined cpu and auth serevr. I think this is a X7SPA-H-D525 though I honestly don't remember the part and don't want to open it up to look. I have a raspberry pi as a terminal - this works

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-06-29 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 5:25 PM, arisawa aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: look http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/hardware/ Thank you for the list. I have been looking at adding some cheap hardware to my home as well, to play with venti. It would have been nice if plan9 is ported to one of those NAS

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-06-29 Thread Pierre-Jean
Hello alls, Nick Owens wrote: the obvious hardware is a thinkpad. Using a laptop as a server seems strange, but is effectively a simple solution. Arisawa wrote: look http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/hardware/ Very handfull. Steve Simon wrote: At home I run... That confirm the usual list of

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-06-29 Thread cinap_lenrek
1) UEFI bios I know that 9load and friends can't handle UEFI bios, but I'm guessing if it's possible to use GRUB and chainload Plan9 when the bios is UEFI. Is that possible ? yes, this is possible. the plan9 kernel can be made a multiboot image and loaded by any multiboot loader like grub.

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-06-29 Thread sl
http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/KnownWorkingHardware http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/hardware/ sl

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-06-29 Thread Jacob Todd
The w510 also works with 9front. WiFi works with wpa2 , ethernet works, native screen resolution of 1366x768 does not currently work, it's stretched 1024x768. I'll mange a full list when I'm home. On Jun 29, 2014 3:02 PM, s...@9front.org wrote:

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-06-29 Thread erik quanstrom
Nick Owens wrote: the obvious hardware is a thinkpad. Using a laptop as a server seems strange, but is effectively a simple solution. the regular supermicro server boards are known to work well. the x9 series are better tested than the x10s. but the x10s should work. also the supermicro