From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32d987d50705070311j1ebf0379od50947ae03d456cd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 12:11:23 +0200 From: "Federico Benavento" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Error booting from latest plan9.iso download In-Reply-To: <20070507083522.GA898@shodan.homeunix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2899e2610705062257r3f619e72v1de67f779c0a1cf4@mail.gmail.com> <32d987d50705062302p63ec0931m608d0ee03b9454e5@mail.gmail.com> <2899e2610705062304k1a9ef778y79c1e6a405697aea@mail.gmail.com> <2899e2610705062353p32697498n601a7566b905b78a@mail.gmail.com> <20070507083522.GA898@shodan.homeunix.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5ea78792-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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