From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <20130706161457.vkkggcET0AcKz2rs+KQM+Q5R@dietcurd.local> <87a427b2eb8426a5177486e96154120a@lyons.quanstro.net> <20130708205516.dU/iEYEJJFYntUodpAS8SIWx@dietcurd.local> From: Matthew Veety Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20130708205516.dU/iEYEJJFYntUodpAS8SIWx@dietcurd.local> Message-Id: <7D704DB6-96BA-4BEE-BA58-BBBC6DDD7D29@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:06:39 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files [solved] Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6b11c654-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jul 8, 2013, at 15:55, Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso wrote= : > Yapadapaduuuuuuuu! > While biking i became enlightened. > Just disabled the network and it boots (VirtualBox 4.2.16, OS X). > It seems the system hangs around trying to get some IP address via > DHCP?? I don't know why it does so long (minutes) and requires > such a lot of CPU time (though of the VM) doing so, ... but it's > working just fine! Just some more years 'till i know what i'm > talking about!! >=20 > --steffen >=20 Yeah it does that. You have to give her a static ip. If you're on wireless, p= romisc sometimes helps. Best solution is install natively.