From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:28:01 +0200 From: David JEANNOT 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 Message-ID: <20070517092801.GA2910@crazypenguin.whypasp.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 69dff162-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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