From: jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com
Subject: Help wanted, Plan9 a piece of junk!
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 22:34:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950816023446.ADXF7pUVv6uJO22OiRMY2vikfwivh3Yvmpty2lEp2Fo@z> (raw)
I took a look in comp.os.linux.misc and felt right at home - there were articles
about weird hangs trying to install distributions, hardware not being recognised,
mice not being found, filesystems being trashed (NOT related to Plan 9), etc.
From: bhogan@rahul.net (Bill Hogan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help wanted, Plan9 a piece of junk!
Date: 14 Aug 1995 22:26:05 GMT
Organization: Reasonable Systems
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Message-ID: <BHOGAN.95Aug14152605@bedlam.rahul.net>
References: <40p6oe$q2t@paul.rutgers.edu>
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In-reply-to: xke@paul.rutgers.edu's message of 15 Aug 1995 00:10:54 -0400
"XK" == Xiao Ke <xke@paul.rutgers.edu> writes:
In article <40p6oe$q2t@paul.rutgers.edu> xke@paul.rutgers.edu (Xiao Ke) writes:
XK> Hi, there,
XK> Help wanted, Plan9, the so boasted next generation os is just a piece of
XK> junk. This time, AT&T really picked a good name for plan9.
XK> I've run linux1.2.0 for about a half year, everything seems OK.
XK> Today, I download the plan9 to play with, it looks working too.
XK> However, actually when I was installing plan9, it overwrote my linux
XK> partition without any pre-warning.
XK> My linux partition is not bootable now, and I try to boot from floppy,
XK> and do fsck on it, it says: "bad magic number". So definately
XK> plan9 overwrote my linux partition.
XK> I want to recover my more than half-year work, since I don't have tape
XK> backup. Please help! Any suggestion will be mostly appreciated.
XK> I guess this is doable, since my linux partition occupies 400Mbytes,
XK> while plan9 only occupies 20Mbytes according to its installation notes,
XK> so it looks like the rest 380Mbytes should be able to recoverd, sounds
XK> reasonable?
XK> Thanks,
XK> -----Xiao Ke
XK> xke@paul.rutgers.edu
Hello Xiao.
I do not know if you will be able to salvage what used to be your
Linux partition or not.
I do know that the plan9 installation guide is something I would
be ashamed to have appear in print under my name.
Given that ATT is apparently planning on *selling* plan9 at $350
per, and given the availability of packages like the Slackware Linux
book/CDROM at < $50 per, I find it totally amazing that ATT would put
out such a half-baked, half-hearted PC/plan9 demo package!
Some demo.
Up until now I had thought I was having a problem because I could
not reboot plan9/B after it was installed on my hard drive but now I
count myself fortunate it didn't.
Bill
--
<bhogan@rahul.net> |- "5. Improve constantly and forever the system of
production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus
constantly decrease costs." (W. Edwards Deming)
next reply other threads:[~1995-08-16 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-08-16 2:34 jmk [this message]
1995-08-16 15:36 Brian
1995-08-16 20:42 Bill
1995-08-17 10:56 Steve_Kilbane
1995-08-17 11:52 Pete
1995-08-17 23:39 Help wanted " Boyd
1995-08-19 15:45 Help wanted, " Martin
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