[9fans] Problems Installing Plan 9

[9fans] Problems Installing Plan 9

[Franklin]

1. I have a PC Pentium 90 MHz with the following hard disk
configurations:

hd0:

0 *TYPE: FAT(HUGE)          LBA:            63 ---->  524159
1  TYPE: EXTENDED           LBA:    524160 ----> 1040255
2  TYPE: HPFS                      LBA:    524223 ----> 1040255
3  TYPE: LINUX(SWAP)      LBA:  1040256 ----> 1104767
4  TYPE: LINUX                   LBA:   1104768 ----> 2128895


hd1:

0  TYPE: EXTENDED        LBA:       8064 ----> 6273791
1  TYPE: HPFS                   LBA:       8127 ----> 2104703
2  TYPE: EXTENDED        LBA: 2104704 ----> 4201343
3 *TYPE: FAT(HUGE)       LBA: 2104767 ----> 4201343
4  TYPE: EMPTY               LBA: 4201344 ----> 6281854


I have  installed Plan 9 (CD version) in the hd1 disk on april/98
without problems.
Since then, I have tried to re-install the Plan 9 in this PC and I
always get the same error messages
(with the directory plan9 both on hd0 and hd1 disk):

      Problem Acessing File
      File: /n/c/plan9
      Errstr: permission denied
      Press almost any key to continue

      Problem Acessing File
      File: /n/c/plan9/rc/bin/cpurc
      Errstr: file does not exist
      Press almost any key to continue


      Problem Acessing File
      File: /n/c/plan9/lib/namespace
      Errstr: file does not exist
      Press almost any key to continue


Inspecting the file /sys/lib/pcdist/src/inst.c, I concluded that the
error ocurrs in the rcp() function in the following point:

    if(dirstat(todir, &b)< 0){
      scroll(todir);
      fd=create(todir, OREAD, CHDIR+0777L);
      if(fd<0){
        warn(todir); /* HERE ERROR MESSAGE */
        return;
      }
      close(fd);

The rcp() function is invoked from the install() function.

I changed, in the library function create(todir, OREAD, CHDIR+0777L),
the omode flag from OREAD to OWRITE and the same error continues:
Permission denied.

It looks like I don't have permission to write(or create) the "plan9"
directory in the disk. But the disc isn't
protected against writing, because from the DOS prompt I can create
files and diretories.


2. I installed Plan 9 (CD version) in a PC with a network board
(type=NE2000) for ISA bus. I installed  Plan 9
sucessfully, but at boot time, I get the following message:

   ipconfig: can't write bootp 'interrupted', hope that's OK.

   ipconfig: setip 143.106.23.196    255.255.255.192

   ipconfig: add 0.0.0.0    0.0.0.0  143.106.23.193


And I could not communicate with others machines (via telnet,ftpfs etc).

I tried this with several ISA network boards and I always got the same
error message.
Then I replaced the ISA network board with a PCI network board and it
works fine. Doesn't Plan 9 work with vanilla ISA network cards ( these
are 3 year old cards)?

The error ocurrs in the /sys/src/cmd/ip/ipconfig.c file, bootp()
function:

    for(rp=0; rp==0 && tries++ < 10;){
       alarm(1000);
       if(write(fd, &req, sizeof(req))<0){
         fprint(2, "ipconfig:can't write bootp'%r', hope that's OK\n");
         close(fd);
         return -1;
       }


3. I installed the Plan 9 as a terminal (option 2: Install CD-ROM to
local drive) in a SCSI PC and it works. But, in the same PC, when I try
to install a file server (Starting up the file server after the Option:
Make a PC file server boot disk), I get the following message:

Configuration:

     config: service ares
     config: ip 143.106.23.196
     config: ipgw 143.106.23.193
     config: ipmask 255.255.255.192 (already try 255.255.0.0)
     config: config w0
     config: filsys main w0
     config: ream main
     config: end


Message that I get:


  sysinit
  config w0
  devinit D6.0.0.0

 The system then halts and the floppy drive led stays lighted.

I have the following configuration in the /lib/ndb/local file:

  dom=dcc.unicamp.br  ip=143.106.7.8

  sys=ares

    dom=ares.dcc.unicamp.br
    ip=143.106.23.196   ether=0000214bb1dd


  ipnet=ic-unicamp-net   ip=143.106.0.0  ipmask=255.255.255.192
     ipgw=143.106.23.193

 And the following configuration in the ipifc and iproute files:


   /'#P'/ipifc:

     #10  1500  143.106.23.195   255.255.255.192    143.106.23.192

  /'#P'/iproute

    0.0.0.0  &  0.0.0.0  ---->  143.106.23.193


SCSI0: aha1542

sd0:

  0 *TYPE: FAT(HUGE)    LBA:         32 ---->  409599
  1  TYPE: EMPTY            LBA: 409600 ----> 2110811


What did we miss? Any suggestions?

Franklin

[9fans] Problems Installing Plan 9

[forsyth]

you don't say what type of SCSI adapter is used in the
file server machine but i'd suspect that the file server
kernel's driver isn't happy with it.  if it's an Adaptec 1542
it might be recent enough that the file server kernel needs
some of the changes (now) in the pc/cpu kernel driver
that set it up correctly.