Getting started in
Plan9
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Its been a little over
a week since i got my Plan9 working and
I still seem to be in tourist
mode.Lots of questions and
a few suggestions:
(I promise I have tried to
answer these for myself before
before I am ask them)
It would be great if we have a school boy style
step-by-step
getting-off-the-ground tour of plan9, maybe somewhere in
the
wiki. I would be glad to do this, if i knew enough.
Graphics
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- I am working with an
S3 Trio 64v2 card, the install floppy
gave me 800*600 res,but after
installation i am on 640*480 and
i cant seem to be able to change
it
aux/vga -l 800x600x8
gives me
'Warning (BUG) : redefinition of
aperture does not change
s3screen segment.'
in a black background in the
sentre of the screen and an error
message that reads
'aux/vga: vgactlw:
<size 800x600x8 m8>: vga already configured'
in the console window. it
is a low end card but I believe that
I did have a higher res through the
boot disk so it should be
possible here too. how can i change to a higher
res ?
- If plan9 is booted through xosl in 640*480
res,plan9 graphics
display ends up corrupt. the bootloader does switch to
text mode
before the OS is booted. anyother resolution or a text mode
boot
loader does not seem to have a problem.
The right quarter of the
screen (approx) seems to be a duplicate
of the band of the screen display
between in the left part. (bad
description i know). Anyway to fix this
?
Acessibility
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- How can I read a couple of html docs
in Plan9 ?
- Is there a place where the uses of directories the std file
system
heirarchy is discussed, esp /n ?
- /n/c: exists, how can i access
the extended partitions ?
- How can i access the floppy a: ? /n/a: exists but
shows no files.
- How can i access the extended windows partitions ?
-
Problem with accessing C: File operations to /n/c: causes a problem
'%mkdir
/n/c:/testdir'
'mkdir: cant create /n/c:/testdir: write to hungup
channel'
also a black background error message comes (is there a generic
name
for these messages ?)
'dossrv 45: suicide: sys: trap fault read
addr=0xb pc=0x00004757'
help ?
Shell
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- How can I find/search for a file in Plan9 ? the usual
find /|grep xxx
does not exist here, what is the equivalent ?
- Why
doesnt/Can rc have autocomplete and filename completion as in
bash ? This
has become so neccessary.
Keys
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- Why cant the left/right arrow keys+home+end keys move
the cursor,
it is really difficult to edit something by placing the cursor
there
with the mouse.
- Unless is it part of a grander plan (no pun
intended), can we move
the process interrupt key from Del to something else
and have the
conventional functionality of del back ?
General
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- Is the option of plan9 default boot in bootsetup
(during install)
safe for other OSes that exist on the system ?
- Why
arent there more applications and more developers interested
in developing
for plan9 ?
Russ, I think it would kill you to keep answering all the newbie
questions. Russ, Imel, Thanks for all the help you have been. I
think
the Plan9 faq needs updation with some of the more generic
questions here.
This is a lesson that could learned from the Win32's,
if you want the OS to
grow, you have to get people comfortable with
it very fast. I think we can
make that happen.
Rosh.
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One
Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and
in the darkness bind them.
(Lord of the Rings)