From: "Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 installation in qemu
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:02:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82c890d00706140202u17498e7le7ebff9564c9af31@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070614105008.0052a4fb.Jens.Arm@gmx.de>
hello
>
> 1.
> When installing from local media (CD) the CD gets mounted by the installer with
> "mount /srv/9660 /n/distmedia /dev/sdD0/data" so why I have to enter "/" at the prompt
> "Location of archives [browse]:" and not "/n/distmedia" where the CD is mounted? What is correct?
> Looks like "/" ist working, but it is correct?
>
The easy way is typing browse and then exit the shell. The paths
changes between namespaces, so may be /n/distmedia was correct in the
path namespace and / is correct in the namespace the user is. i have
no access to p9 right now so i can't verify that part of the install
scripts.
> 2.
> Updating the installed p9 with new daily ISO burned on CD does not work as described in the wiki
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Staying_up_to_date/index.html
>
> I get an error that /dist/replica/cd can not be found. Tested on real hardware, too (same error)
> Must I login with another user as glenda or is updating from CD broken?
>
Last time i check that it was broken, but you can create the files
needed following the sample of the other replica setups, see the man
page for the operation of the replica system,
> Which users are installed by the p9-Installer? And what is the purpose of these users?
>
you can see the users in /adm/users and the users and in fossil
console (see fossilcons man page).
adm, sys, none and glenda i think those are the default users. adm and
sys have the mission to own system files and none is a special user
like nobody on unix. glenda is used as a default terminal user. Read
the papers about how plan9 is organized (cpu servers, auth servers,
fileservers, terminals). A standalone terminal is designed to be
operated by one user, so on the installation, the default one is
glenda.
> 3.
> How can I change the font of the terminal window and all the other (sysload viewer) ... permanently to that of acme or others?
>
on your profile there is a font variable that points to the font used
by rio. To use that font on acme, sam, and others you should use the
-f option some of them have (acme -f $font will start acme with the
font configured on your profile).
slds.
gabi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-14 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-14 8:50 Jens Arm
2007-06-14 9:02 ` Gabriel Diaz [this message]
2007-06-14 15:38 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-06-15 7:58 ` Jens Arm
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