Re: [9fans] Plan9 installation

[vdharani@infernopark.com]

Russ,

thanks for the reply.

>> making
>> bootsetup do its job? what is more, it doesnt do boot floppy creation
>> also.
>
> maybe a bug has been introduced.  people have been working
> on the installer recently.  installing plan 9 onto a disk already
> containing plan 9 is a tricky case and not often tested.

can we track and try to solve the issue? when something fails, people tend
to reinstall and the problem with bootsetup will panic new or even
experienced people. is there any reliable way of getting rid of the
problem? like zero-filling some area?

> venti is slow for reasons other than bad sector offsets.
> i doubt very much that making the sector offsets multiples of 16 matters,
> since cylinder boundaries are so often odd anyway.  the suggestion (which
> i think is my fault) was likely naive paranoia on my part.
in that case, can i remove the lines that talk about this alignment in
Wiki? i think it will mislead, otherwise.

> there should be a new venti by the end of the summer.  i have it running
> a linux system at mit.  i'm going to convert my home venti server over the
> summer and hopefully we'll convert the bell labs venti server too.
> the new venti code is at least 10x faster.
thats great!

>> - after i started plan9, i just did "fsys main snap" in fossil console.
>> it
>> went on for many hours (btw, i havent used fossil before). then i gave
>> the
>> same command again (thinking this time it is going to just come back
>> saying "done"). but it is going on and on. what is strange, i even
>> rebooted the machine. still 'stats' says system is busy. i am wondering
>> what it is doing. any idea?
>
> it's probably saving the file system to venti.  this can take a while, as
> we discussed on 9fans last month (look for a post by vester thacker).
i will check it up.

thanks
dharani