From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:10:09 +0000 From: "James G. Stallings II" Message-ID: <39454B37.4ECB8A63@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Experiences Installing Version 3: Another Take Topicbox-Message-UUID: b8588124-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Greetings, fellow users of the oracle that is USEnet! This post chronicles my adventures installing and (mis)configuring the latest release of plan9 (R3). I will summarize it as follows: as usual, getting the hardware to work is 98% of success. Of course, you have to be able to tell it (plan9) what and where the hardware is, but that's the other two percent, huh :) Once I'd cobbled together the parts for a suitably old machine to set it up on, I got the baseline hardware working and was able to boot to the graphic install. The old dog is built up as follows: 486DX2 66 from Cyrix on an unknown MB w 32M ram 512M Conner HD (IDE) 36x CDROM LinkSys Ether16CT 10BT ethernet std 1.4M floppy SB16 audio std kb 2 button ser mouse Speedstar64 VGA with about 511K of memory on it (some of the pixels drop out ;^) Initial installs were done via locally-burned CD. The fifth and final install was performed over the ether and is installed on a native plan9 fat on the disk (it's the only partition). As I summarized, getting the hardware right has been most of the battle so far. This would have been no different for any other O/S. Getting the right VGA settings was nontrivial enough to educate me concerning getting the ethernet right. Jim (jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com) was an especially valuable resource here as well - Thanks Amigo! Now I have it pretty well going, except for a few issues involving networking. Can someone tell a bonehead how to configure the /lib/nbd/ for a small lan? The net is like this: 1 win95 box named tor at 192.168.1.4 1 dual boot win95/redhat box named nitro at 192.168.1.1 1 debian server named plastique at 192.168.1.2 1 winnt portable named dock at 192.168.1.3 1 standalone plan9 box named plan9 at 192.168.1.7 gateway is 192.168.1.254 dns is 151.164.1.7 and 151.164.1.8 the plan9 box (for now) needs to be everything plan9 on the lan (cpu server, file server and terminal) I'd be happy to share my current /lib/ndb/local* and /lib/ndb/common with you except that in my feeble attempts to configure it I've blown the box off the 'net. I know it's not a device problem cause it werked just fine when I downloaded the distribution archive. Plus it was pingable until I munged with /lib/nbd/* Thanks in advance for any assists! Cheers! James