From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <000001c5a1a8$62471350$e000a8c0@OBLIVIONDT> From: "Ezequiel Reyes" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <200508150916.j7F9GnK01112@demeter.cs.utwente.nl> <200508150935.j7F9Z0R01312@demeter.cs.utwente.nl> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:37:38 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] accesing a local fossil Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77f93c2e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, I wanted to install plan 9 in my second partition using the option 1 of the menu in the liveCD. It stoped trying to find a file in sdD0, so I gave it the same path for the file but with sdC1 (my cd drive) and some questions later it started rio and a series of programas that made easy questions and led the instalation through without problems. The last of these programs asked for a booting option, giving me to select from (floppy,boot from plan9 ,win9x,winnt), something like that. As mine is a dual boot disk, I could not select to start my system directly with plan 9, wich I guess would have been the easier for the installer, so I selected first floppy, but it could not find it, as it tried to find it on sdD0 (this time with no possibility of providing my own path like before), then I tried winnt, but it could not find a .ini nt file on my Windows partition. So I gave it a ctrl-d and the next option was [finish]. I happend to have a NetBSD bootloader before so I could still have the bootmenu and use the option NetBSD which was now pointing to the newly installed plan 9 system, But plan 9 stoped when reading the plan9.ini file in the installed system since it mentioned fd0 as the booting media. Then I thought I could mount the installed system using the liveCD system that came with the CD and from there using sam or something edit the ini file and point it to the correct file in the new partition (and some more info about screen res, mouse and of course, the vesa driver in case it weren't already there). So I fired up the liveCD option, went through the manuals and tried something like: %fossil/fossil -f /dev/sdC0/fossil then I listed /srv but there was no /srv/fossil entry there, so I could not mount. Besides, I noticed a text something like rfork ### fsave, printed somewhere over the screen (over the windows, not inside them), being ### the id of the fork I guess. I rememberd seeing /srv/fossil during the instalation, so I went back and started the instalation process again (as I had noticed it used a different rio version since it have smaller fonts and circular menus unlike the liveCD option which I think is older) just to see if I could mount the already instaled system from there. As the instalation started I looked for fossil in /srv and it was there, so I opened a new window and tried: fossil/fossil -f /dev/sdC0/fossil again, this time I could later add mount /srv/fossil /n/9fat and it worked ok showing me the new installed tree there. The problem is I have no sam or acme available from the instalation system so I could not edit anything, just browse. Did I miss something while trying to start fossil on /dev/sdC0/fossil using the liveCD system? Is is possible at all to perform an instalation this way? I would like not to depend on the floppy disk every time I boot in plan 9. Is it possible?