Re: [9fans] Trap in 5c compiling rc?

2010-12-08 Thread erik quanstrom
Now, how do I tell it to use the USB stick as a root filesystem? I'm guessing I'll want to have two partitions, one to hold the image and another as a native P4 fs of some sort (if only to get case-sensitive filenames). what do you mean by image here? - erik

Re: [9fans] the futility of QTMOUNT

2010-12-08 Thread Charles Forsyth
QTMOUNT allows exportfs to detect an attempt to open a /srv file that has been opened and mounted somewhere on the system running exportfs (i'll refer to that as the `called system' and the client of exportfs as the `calling system'). exportfs opens the /srv file, mounts that file descriptor

Re: [9fans] the futility of QTMOUNT

2010-12-08 Thread Charles Forsyth
exportfs never detects this bit being set. i would expect the type to be 90, not 80 in this example ... ; mkdir q; mount /srv/boot q; ls -qd q (0001 48 80) q i wouldn't! it's not set on the *mounted* file system in the scope of exportfs but on the file (/srv/boot), once opened, that

Re: [9fans] Trap in 5c compiling rc?

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Lalonde
/arm/9plug On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:06 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@labs.coraid.comwrote: Now, how do I tell it to use the USB stick as a root filesystem? I'm guessing I'll want to have two partitions, one to hold the image and another as a native P4 fs of some sort (if only to get

Re: [9fans] gumstix displays

2010-12-08 Thread Jacob Todd
Seems a little small for a terminal, 4.3 at 480x272 resolution. Maybe I'm crazy.

Re: [9fans] gumstix displays

2010-12-08 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: Seems a little small for a terminal, 4.3 at 480x272 resolution. Maybe I'm crazy. That's better than what you got on the iPaq, and I found that to be reasonably usable. John

Re: [9fans] gumstix displays

2010-12-08 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: There have been cheaper terminals for ages. But small may look nice in some cases... If you can point me at such a cheap graphical terminal that is still being made, I just might buy one tonight :) Grab a pentium from the

Re: [9fans] gumstix displays

2010-12-08 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Dec 8 19:00:57 EST 2010, slawmas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: There have been cheaper terminals for ages. But small may look nice in some cases... If you can point me at such a cheap graphical terminal that is still

Re: [9fans] gumstix displays

2010-12-08 Thread Lucio De Re
if you want to go for a cheap atom, i think you can beat that price. Yes, but two weeks later you can't get the same device anymore, even though the successor, incompatible in fifteen different ways, is 2 USD cheaper. And all of it is buggy in some fashion or other. And VGA is its own reward.