From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:18:51 -0400
From: Colin DeVilbiss <crdevilb@mtu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] successful install, iffy setup
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hi; I have successfully installed plan9v3 on a laptop in the past 2
days.

I have 3 questions:

1: how do I mount an ext2 filesystem?  I grok using /srv/dos for FAT
   filesystems, but I don't see a parallel for the ext2 side of things (I
   live in linux most of the time.)

2: is there a simple web browser for plan9? even an html viewer less
   complex than html2ms | troff | page or the like?

3: how do I get my network set up like I did in linux? I understand that it
   should be much simpler than it was for linux (1 file, etc), but I can't
   seem to make it work.

   I am behind a ip-masqueraded firewall, and our subnet is 192.168.0.xx
   (192.168.0.0 subnetmask 255.255.255.0).  our server/gateway (linux)
   is 192.168.0.1 internally.

   to deal with this in linux, I just do the following at boot time:

   ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.69         # my local address
   route add default gw 192.168.0.1   # all requests go through the server

   after that, everything just works under linux.

   I have gotten the first part done I think:

   ip/ipconfig ether /net/ether0 192.168.0.69

   but I don't see how to set up the gateway.

   the only relevant information in the linux config files as far as I
   know:

   /etc/resolv.conf:
   domain my.domain
   ns my.ns.1
   ns my.ns.2
   search search.1 search.2

   if someone could explain to me how to pattern-match the above into a
   working /lib/ndb/local and/or /rc/bin/termrc, I would much appreciate
   it.

thanks in advance for any help;
cat flames > /dev/null

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Colin DeVilbiss
crdevilb@mtu.edu