* [9fans] plan9 on NeXTstation?
@ 1999-03-31 10:00 Ralf
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From: Ralf @ 1999-03-31 10:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
I just received a 68040 based NeXTstation and like to install plan9 on it.
Unfortunately I cannot find /68020/9nextstation anywhere.
In the manual is mentioned that the file is not part of the distribution, but
it also mentions that it can be found under "/usr/template/client/tftpboot/boot
on the vendor-supplied file system". Is here anybody with plan9 running
on a NeXT who can give me a hint ? Are they talking about NeXTstep when
they say 'vendor-supplied file system' ? Unfortunately I only got the box
because the old disk with the NeXTstep on it was broken.
Thanx for any hints.
--
Ralf Gebhart, Mail: Snake@snake.de
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* [9fans] plan9 on NeXTstation?
@ 1999-03-31 14:47 James
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From: James @ 1999-03-31 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
> I just received a 68040 based NeXTstation and like to install plan9 on it.
> Unfortunately I cannot find /68020/9nextstation anywhere.
On the assumption that you have a full Plan 9 system (a license and
CDROM distribution). If for some reason your Plan 9 setup does not have a
compiled 9nextstation kernel, you should be able to go to /sys/src/9/next,
and compile one.
If you don't in fact have a Plan 9 system, you would have to buy it
and set up a file server and auth/bootp server before you could get
started... You can buy it via a bookstore, the ISBN is 0-03-017143-1. You
can read more about it, and about the free PC test version, at the Bell
Labs Plan 9 server: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/distrib.html
> In the manual is mentioned that the file is not part of the distribution, but
> it also mentions that it can be found under "/usr/template/client/tftpboot/boot
> on the vendor-supplied file system". Is here anybody with plan9 running
> on a NeXT who can give me a hint ? Are they talking about NeXTstep when
> they say 'vendor-supplied file system' ?
They aren't talking about the 9nextstation kernel here. What the docs are saying
is that there is a boot-loader file called 'boot' under the NeXTstep filesystem
which you need to copy to your auth/bootp server. So you need both 9nextstation
(which you get with the Plan 9 CD), and the boot file (which indeed you need to
get from a working NeXTstep filesystem) in order to make a nextstation boot up
over the network.
If you don't want to set up a PC file server and auth/bootp server, you can
take a look at http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/plan9/info/next.html for at least
some information on using u9fs, the unix hack to do Plan 9 file service...
Jim
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