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Date: Tue,  8 May 2007 10:10:18 +1000
From: Wes <anomaly256@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Error booting from latest plan9.iso download
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I did add it to termrc, but when I rebooted I forgot to do an fshalt
first so it didn't take.  All good now, thanks.  I'll set it up the
proper way now.

Wes

On 5/7/07, Federico Benavento <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought we were talking about booting the live CD...
> after the installation add an entry to /lib/ndb/local
>
> sys=mymachine ether=macaddres
>
> you can find nic's macaddres by catting /net/ether0/addr
> ah, and it has to be in lower case
>
> On 5/7/07, Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net> wrote:
> > * Wes (anomaly256@gmail.com) wrote:
> > > hmm, echoing machinename to /dev/sysname doesn't seem to be persistent
> > > across reboots and adding it to termrc also doesn't seem to take.
> > > Will I have to do this every bootup?
> >
> > The ``right'' solution would be to specify your network configuration in
> > /lib/ndb/local. If you have only a single plan9 machine you can get away
> > with ``echo hostname > /dev/sysname'' in termrc (or, rather, termrc.local).
> >
> >         Martin
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Federico G. Benavento
>