> 2009/8/26 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> > it contains all the changes from the last 10 days.
> > should fix all reported problems, except béla's.
>
> Could you post the link? I am new to this list and plan9, and i can
> not find a 9atom.iso, but a plan9.iso.bz2 [1]
> It would also be helpful for me reading some introductory material, i
> guess i can find it, but if you know some reference i would appreciate
> it.

the link is

       ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2

       cf819b70c90cedc39e305fb57d38f5df37302f84        Aug 26 09:13 9atom.iso.bz2

just a point of clarification.  the purpose of 9atom.iso
is to help people get going who are having trouble with
various sata or pata chipsets.  i recommend using
the standard cd if it works for you.  applying the contrib
packages to an official cd makes more sense as i hope
that this one-off cd can go away in the future.

it has different kernels and 9loads than the distribution.
it also applies the ape strtod fix to awk, and doesn't use
floating point in venti or fossil to avoid rounding errors.
you can think of 9atom.iso as plan9.iso.bz2 +
       contrib quanstro/9load-e820     (binaries only)
       contrib quanstro/sd             (binaries only)
       /n/sources/patch/apestrtod              (awk binary only)
       /n/sources/patch/fossil-sleep-stress
                                       (venti moded, too)

for my own convienence, there are some kernel differences
not covered above.  they should be inconsequential.
but the source to that kernel is here
       ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/kernel.mkfs.bz2

- erik