[9fans] cannot find sources - have I missed somthing?

2014-02-24 Thread Steve Simon
Trying to do a pull today for the first time in ages and dns doesn't seem to find sources.cs.bell-labs.com any more. with the GPLing of plan9 as the labs plan9 distribution moved to google code or sourceforge, and I missed the message? -Steve

Re: [9fans] cannot find sources - have I missed somthing?

2014-02-24 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:13:08AM +, Steve Simon wrote: Trying to do a pull today for the first time in ages and dns doesn't seem to find sources.cs.bell-labs.com any more. I still have: Non-authoritative answer: Name: sources.cs.bell-labs.com Address: 67.215.66.132 --

Re: [9fans] cannot find sources - have I missed somthing?

2014-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Feb 24 05:17:33 EST 2014, st...@quintile.net wrote: Trying to do a pull today for the first time in ages and dns doesn't seem to find sources.cs.bell-labs.com any more. the nameservers (which have sequential ip addresses) are simply not on the net right now. i imagine some sort of

[9fans] recent Bell .iso images don't boot in QEMU

2014-02-24 Thread Paul Ivanov
Hey gang, As per the subject, I tried to start playing with plan 9, but kept running into this error: dosinit: can't open #S/sdC0/9fat dosinit #S/sdC0/9fat failed and gives me a `Boot from:` prompt (which I have no idea what to do with) My boot command was `kvm -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d

Re: [9fans] recent Bell .iso images don't boot in QEMU

2014-02-24 Thread David du Colombier
dosinit: can't open #S/sdC0/9fat dosinit #S/sdC0/9fat failed This is a known issue in QEMU. It was introduced in QEMU 1.6.0 (August 2013). QEMU = 1.5.3 are not affected. I've submitted a patch in December: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-trivial/2013-12/msg00114.html I believe the

Re: [9fans] recent Bell .iso images don't boot in QEMU

2014-02-24 Thread Alexander Kegel
I ran into the same error on an OpenBSD machine (qemu version 1.7.0), and obviously that error is a known problem. However, I was able to boot and install the plan9.iso after moving the cdrom to the slave of the disk's ide. For me, that looked like: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -drive

[9fans] Plan 9 and friends in GSoC!

2014-02-24 Thread Anthony Sorace
Good news: the list or organizations for this year's Google Summer of Code came out a bit under an hour ago, and we've been accepted! Much thanks to everyone who's helped out, particularly those of you who worked on our ideas page. We can certainly always use more work on the wiki, but if you'd

Re: [9fans] NDB Error

2014-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
Hello 9fans, I get the error as seen in the screenshot - I highly suspect this is because the internet connection I'm using at present is pretty dodgy, but I stand to be corrected if I'm wrong about this. I am using DCHP for the bridging on my Mac. I will try to reinstall when I'm at uni

Re: [9fans] NDB Error

2014-02-24 Thread Iruatã Souza
to avoid confusion: it is a 9front install On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Shane Morris edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello 9fans, I get the error as seen in the screenshot - I highly suspect this is because the internet connection I'm using at present is pretty dodgy, but I stand to be

Re: [9fans] NDB Error

2014-02-24 Thread Bence Fábián
Certainly not a network error. As Erik pointed out, you don't have that directoriy. My guess is that some steps weren't done in the right order. Try doing mountfs again. 2014-02-24 22:37 GMT+01:00 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: Hello 9fans, I get the error as seen in the

[9fans] Various distributions

2014-02-24 Thread Peter Hull
Sorry for this extremely basic question but I'm a bit confused about the various plan9 distributions. As I understand it, 9front is a fork of the original plan 9 from Bell Labs and 9atom consists of enhancements to plan9. All three seem to be under development, but: Are changes being pulled from

Re: [9fans] NDB Error

2014-02-24 Thread Bence Fábián
or copydist maybe because i don't see that among the done tasks 2014-02-24 22:40 GMT+01:00 Iruatã Souza iru.mu...@gmail.com: to avoid confusion: it is a 9front install On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Shane Morris edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello 9fans, I get the error as seen in

Re: [9fans] Various distributions

2014-02-24 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Peter Hull peterhul...@gmail.com: Sorry for this extremely basic question but I'm a bit confused about the various plan9 distributions. As I understand it, 9front is a fork of the original plan 9 from Bell Labs and 9atom consists of enhancements to plan9. All three seem to be under

Re: [9fans] Various distributions

2014-02-24 Thread Anthony Sorace
This is all my read on the situation only. I use 9atom and track the mainline closely, but only casually track 9front. The mainline Plan 9 distribution from Bell Labs is managed very conservatively, from an external point of view. Both 9atom and, later, 9front were started because that didn't

Re: [9fans] Various distributions

2014-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
9atom is, procedurally, very similar to mainline: you submit changes via patches, sources and everything else is available via 9p, and so on. It also puts similar weight on compatibility and similar concerns. 9front is a more radical departure for contributions will be welcomed to the

Re: [9fans] NDB Error

2014-02-24 Thread Shane Morris
Ok, I'd copied the dist over, and still I get the same error. Let me try again. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Bence Fábián beg...@gmail.com wrote: or copydist maybe because i don't see that among the done tasks 2014-02-24 22:40 GMT+01:00 Iruatã Souza iru.mu...@gmail.com: to avoid

Re: [9fans] NDB Error

2014-02-24 Thread Shane Morris
Ok, got it working now - was just pinging google.com.au. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Shane Morris edgecombe...@gmail.comwrote: Ok, I'd copied the dist over, and still I get the same error. Let me try again. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Bence Fábián beg...@gmail.com wrote: or