From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] problems installing the plan9 distribution on fileserver
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:32:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303270332.h2R3WVv03538@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:15:36 EST." <Pine.GSU.4.44.0303262153030.9276-100000@adore.lightlink.com>
> mount the sources.cs.bell-labs.com namespace onto my /n/sources ...
Yup.
> make it so the plan9 distribution appears in /n/dist ...
Yup.
> mount the fileserver namespace onto /n/inst
Yup.
> ?? I don't have a /dist/replica/inst, but if I did... would this
> accomplish the task of installing the plan9 distribution onto the
> fileserver?
And yup.
> I see above you mention I may have to copy it from sources.. I'll
> investigate this after a good night's rest.
Yeah; it's in /n/sources/plan9/dist/replica/inst. It really ought to
be in the distribution; I don't know why it isn't. Russ?
> > 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.
>
> Define "a while"... tonight? a couple of days? I just finished a pull and
> got a lot of new files... I'll give it another look in the morning.
I think I'd better let rsc answer that. :-)
> If I have to I can eventually rebuild everything as I am still
> experimenting, but hopefully I can get it to a state to play with limbo
> and some distributed programming (implement the travelling salesperson
> problem). Any pointers on distributed programming in Plan 9?
Sounds like fun. The papers in /sys/doc are a good start.
> Thank you very much for your reply! It has helped to clarify a lot in
> regards to exploring Plan 9.
No problem.
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-27 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-27 1:35 Matthew Haas
2003-03-27 2:23 ` Dan Cross
2003-03-27 3:15 ` Matthew Haas
2003-03-27 3:32 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2003-03-27 3:47 ` Russ Cox
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