From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sat,  7 Oct 1995 05:01:43 -0400
From: Alex Bochannek abochann@cisco.com
Subject: Standalone SPARC.
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I've got a few questions about this.

1) I successfully unpacked the CD onto my drive. After I was done with
   it, I tried to reboot but all I found on the drive (sd1) was the
   old SunOS partition I had on it before and none of the new files. I
   figure I need to do a (SunOS) format before actually doing this,
   correct?

2) Let's say I get my sd1 drive to contain a kfs, how would I use it
   in the boot process? The 9ss kernel doesn't really give me a choice
   to boot locally. Or can I select il and point to my own address? Or
   is there a third boot option like local!#w/w1disk? 

3) Does anyone know if there's a way to actually boot the 9ss from the
   internal disk? In the UniOsnabrueck paper (thanks for sending it,
   Petra) it says you can just do a "boot 9ss". Does that mean if I
   take a newly formatted disk under SunOS and do an installboot on
   it, it would be happy? I kinda doubt it. Or is there a SPARC
   version of home(8)?

4) I had a bunch of trouble with the u9fs stuff. Here some tips how I
   finally got it working. I compiled only with the BSD, NEEDPROTO,
   and LOG defines. I used gcc and the -ansi option. And I hardcoded
   "/plan9" in the chroot in u9fs.c because for some reason inetd
   refused to hand over the parameters I had in /etc/inetd.conf. That
   was on a sun4m SPARC with 4.1.3_U1.

Thanks a bunch.

Alex.

>                                        Net-boot 9ss on the
> IPX, login as 'none'.  You should see a clock and a little window saying
> installation complete, welcome to plan 9, this is rc.
> 
> Now set up the local disk and CD rom player, like so: 
> 
> bind -a '#'w3 /dev  (I assume the disk is at SCSI 3, as usual)
> bind -a '#'R6 /dev  (this gets the CD player)
> 
> (Don't forget the '-a'... /dev gets really small if you do.)
> 
> disk/prep /dev/sd3disk
> 
> answer 'a' to the question to get the default partitions.
> 
> disk/kfs -rb4096 -f/dev/sd3fs  (kinda like newfs)
> 
> mkdir /n/kfs; mount -c /srv/kfs /n/kfs
> 
> Now you have a local filesystem on /n/kfs.  Try
> 
> disk/kfscmd sync
> 
> as a sanity check.
> 
> 9660srv  (sets up CD player service)
> 
> mkdir /n/cdrom; mount -c /srv/9660 /n/cdrom /dev/cd6
> 
> Now you have the local disk and CD player ready to go.
> 
> disk/kfscmd allow  (Not sure if this is really needed, but turning off
> 	            permissions sounded cool.)
> 
> Now you want to unpack the CD onto the local disk:
> 
> disk/mkfs -a -u /adm/users -s /n/cdrom /lib/proto/allproto |
> 	disk/mkext -u -v -d/n/kfs -z4096
> 
> (This gets a "usage" grumble from mkext but it seems to work.  Didn't
> work without the -d/n/kfs, though the manpage implies it should.)
> 
> The -v will generate a 
> 
> x /n/kfs/some/file/name
> 
> message as the files are extracted.
>