Re: [9fans] problems installing the plan9 distribution on fileserver

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

>  My adventures with Plan 9 continue... thanks to the people who helped me
> get past the initial fileserver configure stage... I've managed to create
> & ream the main filesystem, and with some digging through online
> documentation my auth/cpu & fileserver are now talking to each other.
> 
>  I've managed to mount the fileserver onto the auth/cpu server directory
> tree, as listed in the "Installing a Plan 9 File Server" document.
> However, when I get to the following command:
> 
>  wrap/inst -ovr /n/$FILESERVER plan9.9gz
> 
>  I get the following error message:
> 
>  wrap/inst: '/bin/wrap' directory entry not found
> 
>  This has me utterly baffled. I take it I am supposed to have this utility
> installed on the auth/cpu server from the install, but it does not seem to
> be there.
> 
>  I've tried searching for it:
> 
>  du -a . | grep wrap    (also for inst, no luck on either)
> 
>  I am running Plan 9 4th edition "current-as-of-2-weeks-ago" (x86) ...
> currently doing another pull to see if perhaps something is missing.
> 
>  Any suggestions? Unless I am completely off-base on this, it just seems I
> am missing a utility I should have... as I think everything else is
> communicating as it should.
> 
>  Thanks in advance.

Argh, I've been meaning to fix that.  Basically, wrap/* no longer
exists; that functionality has been taken over by the replica tools.

I'm a little surprised your du -a /root | grep inst didn't see
/root/dist/replica/inst; that's on sources, but maybe it's not making
it into the installation logs or something.  Anyway, I'd do a pull, and
if /dist/replica/inst doesn't exist, copy it off of sources by hand.
Then you can do:

	9fs sources
	bind /n/sources/plan9 /n/dist
	srv $FILESERVER
	mount -c /srv/$FILESERVER /n/inst
	replica/pull -v /dist/replica/inst

Which will populate /n/inst with the current version of the system from
sources.  You might want to wait a while though; rsc is pushing out
some changes to namespace and some other stuff that (I don't think)
have hit sources yet, but which will be backwards incompatible.  It's
worth it to wait so you avoid the incompatibility.

	- Dan C.