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From: David JEANNOT <djeannot24@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] $sysname isn't set in the 'live' part of the iso
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:28:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070517092801.GA2910@crazypenguin.whypasp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba0d3bc70705170030x4700f19nf71a8a827a57730a@mail.gmail.com>

> as Wes noted in his mail "Error booting from latest plan9.iso
> download", booting the 'live' part of the iso gives an error, because
> $sysname isn't set (booting the installer does work, $sysname is set
> to "gnot" in that case).
> It seems however that the focus of that thread was, from there on, on
> fixing this issue on a freshly installed plan9 system; the fact that
> the 'live' part of the iso isn't working either seems to have lost
> attention. Since this is the first thing many newcomers (including
> myself) are going to see, I guess it deserves a fix. Sorry for the
> noise if work is already being done on this.
> 
> Greetings, Sander.

See "sorry: termrc-error" on plan9changes list for the fix.
Indeed, It doesn't seem to have been applied yet.

david


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-17  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-17  7:30 Sander van Dijk
2007-05-17  9:28 ` David JEANNOT [this message]
2007-05-17 10:41   ` Sander van Dijk
2007-05-21  7:42     ` Sergey Zhilkin
2007-05-21  9:35       ` Sander van Dijk
2007-05-21 11:25         ` Richard Miller
2007-05-22 10:04           ` Sander van Dijk

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