From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1491.24.6.25.223.1117622832.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1568.24.6.25.223.1117542355.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 05:47:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 installation From: vdharani@infernopark.com To: "Russ Cox" , "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 58881b9e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 ten= d 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 matter= s, > since cylinder boundaries are so often odd anyway. the suggestion (whi= ch > 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 runnin= g > 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 wonderin= g >> 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