initial field report (was Re: [9fans] slow video fix)

[Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>]

Don wrote:
> On another note removing USB fixes all my previous
> problems as well as one I had last night. Writes
> to the main hard drive were timing out.

Hmm... Could that also explain the following:
When I installed on my home system(*)
I got three read errors during copydist,
where the plan9.iso was a file on a cd
(I tried to 'burn image' with 'ahead nero 5' (?)
 software on windows, but it mumbled something
 about 'relocating...' followed by 'error, press ok')
I could read the cd without problem while installing
on a toshiba tecra 8000 laptop.
Hmm. both home system and laptop have usb...

Field report:

tecra 8000 laptop installed OK, apart from a known
problem present in 3rd ed. where switching to external
or external+internal monitor does not work. I'll send
details later in a separate message.

(*) 450 Mhz pentium 3, creative dvd player Nvidia 3400 TNT
installed OK, apart from the mentioned read problem,
and I no longer find the ISA modem card - old config lines
seem not to detect it. Wrt the read problem,
I copied the truncated files (/386/bin/^(gs gzip gunzip)
by hand. Simply removing them and re-invoking copydist
didn't work (looking at the dist source I understand why).

Wrt. the fs cpu/auth network, I started following forsyth's
instructions; the fs now runs the 4th ed. kernel,and I can
access it from the standalone 4th ed. laptop and from 3rd ed.
cpu/auth server; I hope to have time to install the 4th ed.
files on the fs and convert the cpu/auth server this afternoon...

So far things went pretty smoothly; thanks/congratulations!!
Axel.