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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:49:17 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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see: http://9grid.net/magic/webls?dir=/rminnich/src/lguest

To boot: put this on a 2G usb stick. Will it work for other sizes? I don't know.

Boot. Make sure you tell the laptop to boot usb (F12 on thinkpad to
get a set of boot devices).

You'll get a grub> prompt -- sorry, the next problem was fixed but too
late for this image.
type
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
Let it boot to the default (usb) image.
hit ENTER to see the modes.

You want 1024x768xlots'o'colors. It's always a different #. So far:
X60 -- 305
T60 -- 323

Notice cute little penguin{s) at upper left if you have VESA. Wait for shell.
type:
runme
/etc/init.d/syslog start &

wait for messages. Note that runme sets up a bunch of virtual
consoles. This is going to come in handy in just a minute.

type
. RUNLGUEST
wait a bit ...once you have an rc prompt, you can do this:
<ALT>F2
now we get to use Aki's fine work:
drawterm -a hanska -c hanska
You'll get a user prompt (bootes) and password (lguestgood).

Voila! you're in!

Known problems:
1. disk io is really not great. That needs to be fixed. I have screwed
it up several times, so I left it at working but slow.
2. I can't get iptables for nat to work on 2.6.2x. So the standard way
to nat out won't work. Help us someone!

That's about it -- you can use this. If somebody wants to fix up
/boot/grub/menu.lst I would appreciate it.

Also, in Aki drawterm, to move to other virtual consoles:
^T^T1 or ^T^T3 or whatever.
To kill Aki drawterm, ^T^TR (R, not r)

So you can have multiple drawterms.

I hope to put the kernel sources on sources AND 9grid.net tonight.

The network problem is fixed. Thanks to David Presotto and the other
folks at BAP9UG for solving this one. What they and I learned led to a
big improvement in the network driver.

It is actually pretty nice, and there is NO X11, NO Python on this image.

Er, um, and no browser (yet). I'm looking at one of the light ones,
AND putting inferno on here. I was going to try omero but I can't get
more than a few steps in without having it blow up on me -- I would
really love to have it however. Nemo, need to learn how to set up a
CPU server with the important bits of omero, then have a person
drawterm in and get the rest of the setup. Interested?

ron