From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:44:26 +0100
From: Digby Tarvin digbyt@acm.org
Subject: [9fans] New User: Basic Questions (unclear in FAQ etc)
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>I'm a new user. I've installed the pcdist, from the newest floppy
>images/files, to my 486 PC.
>
>I have two initial goals:
>
>1. I want to get Plan 9 configured with my NE2000 card to allow me to
>either telnet to one of my unix boxes (on the LAN), or be able to ping the
>Plan 9 machine from another machine.
>The card is at 0x300 and IRQ5, and appears to be found by probing on boot
>(the ethernet address appears on the green-text login/root fs page).
>
I am just working on getting my copy installed also, so this may
be a case of the blind leading the blind, but..

I have succeded in getting my ethernet going by just entering the
correct hardware details in plan9.ini, and updating /lib/ndb/local.
At least I can use telnet and ftpfs.

Ping, strangely, is much more ambitious. I don't recall if
that can be gotten going just from the floppy installation.

I use a SCSI CD-ROM, so can't comment on the ATAPI.

Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
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