From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200303270332.h2R3WVv03538@augusta.math.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] problems installing the plan9 distribution on fileserver In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:15:36 EST." From: Dan Cross Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:32:31 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 85832210-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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.