Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-28 Thread john
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this brings up another question of mine, how can I install Plan B? If you're a big enough badass, http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/planb.txt or /n/sources/contrib/john/planb.txt may help you. I wasn't quite badass enough, so while I got Plan B installed (ish) I never

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-28 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Sure. We are retiring the planb system still in place. Only some itx in the corridor are still using it. All our terminals are either Plan 9 native (some running octopus PCs) or octopus terminals. But in any case, if anyone still wants to try plan b for any purpose I'll try to help. On Sat, Nov

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-20 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
2008/11/19 Nolan Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can people still use Alef?, if so how can I get my hands on it. People use Limbo. -- С Уважением Жилкин Сергей

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-19 Thread Nolan Hamilton
this brings up another question of mine, how can I install Plan B? On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Federico G. Benavento [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I'd also check lucio's contrib which some stuff in /n/sources/contrib/lucio/sys and some .tgz which includes binaries in

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-19 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
You have to copy the discrib on top of a plan 9 one, then configure it. In fact, I'm not sure, but there might be a full distribution on our web page. There are detailed manual pages (and I think there were more detailed instructions on this list time ago). See intro and booting, IIRC. If this is

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-19 Thread Nolan Hamilton
Can you really track fedex packages with plan b?

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-19 Thread lucio
This is not the kind of system that comes with instructions. I started fumbling around something like this: term% tar xvzf alef.tgz term% cd sys/src term% ls term% cd alef term% ls term% mk all and you can see it goes wrong. Welcome to Adventure! If you want a working version of the

[9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-18 Thread Nolan Hamilton
Can people still use Alef?, if so how can I get my hands on it.

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-18 Thread Federico G. Benavento
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/extra/alef.tgz On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Nolan Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can people still use Alef?, if so how can I get my hands on it. -- Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-18 Thread Nolan Hamilton
Thank you very much. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Federico G. Benavento [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/extra/alef.tgz On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Nolan Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can people still use Alef?, if so how can I get my hands on it.

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-18 Thread Nolan Hamilton
Sorry , how do I install it? On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Nolan Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Thank you very much. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Federico G. Benavento [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/extra/alef.tgz On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:25 PM,

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-18 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Nolan Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry , how do I install it? This is not the kind of system that comes with instructions. I started fumbling around something like this: term% tar xvzf alef.tgz term% cd sys/src term% ls term% cd alef term% ls term% mk all

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-18 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Last time I checked alef,tgz didn't include the x86 port; shame, I wanted to try it too. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkkjkAcACgkQuv7AVNQDs+wtEwCfUaBuz0D6MvAaSUTKNvAw2MCD

Re: [9fans] How can I use alef?

2008-11-18 Thread erik quanstrom
Last time I checked alef,tgz didn't include the x86 port; shame, I wanted to try it too. did you happen to look in /sys/src/alef/8? - erik