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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:18:50 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] new install, a couple questions
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A lot of what you're trying to do is covered in the plan 9 wiki.

http://netlib.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/plan_9_wiki/




On 4/18/06, J Willard Gibbs <karma1345@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Seems to work great. Really neat.
>
> 1. How can I change the screen resolution for Rio? It's still at 640x480
> from the
>       install sequence.
>
> 2. I noticed some messages referring to utilities I don't have available.
> Did I miss
>       part of the install?
>       % riostart
>       riostart: '/bin/riostart' file does not exist
>       % taskbar
>       taskbar: '/bin/taskbar' file does not exist
>
> 3. For some reason I can't write to temp files which is causing problems:
>       % sam
>       sam: can't create temp file: '/tmp/Z342.gibbsam' permission denied
>       % con -l /srv/fscons
>       prompt: uname sys +gibbs
>       uname: 'gibbs' already in group 'sys'
>       % ls -lrt / | grep tmp
>       d-r-xr-xr-x M  8 sys   sys   0 Mar 1 09:53 /tmp
>       % cd /tmp
>       % touch x
>       touch: x: cannot create: 'x' permission denied
>
> 4. I manually created the directory structure at /usr/gibbs:
>     /lib
>     /bin
>     /bin/rc
>     /tmp
>   However no change mods or analogous. Also I created the
> /usr/gibbs/lib/profile as follows
>     bind -a $home/bin/rc /bin
>     bind -a $home/bin/$cputype /bin
>     bind -c $home/tmp /tmp
>     upas/fs
>     switch($service) {
>     case terminal
>       plumber
>       prompt=3D('term% ' '    ')
>       exec rio -f $font
>     case cpu
>       bind /mnt/term/dev/cons /dev/cons
>       bind /mnt/term/dev/consctl /dev/consctl
>       bind -a /mnt/term/mnt/wsys /dev
>       prompt=3D('cpu% ' '    ')
>       news
>     case con
>       prompt=3D('cpu% ' '    ')
>       news
>     }
>
>    Although, I don't have a good idea what's in mind there. Therefore I
> suspect
>        I missed some important steps.
>
> Gibbs
>
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