Re: [9fans] 9fans Digest, Vol 119, Issue 55

Re: [9fans] 9fans Digest, Vol 119, Issue 55

[Michael Hansen]

>many thinkpads will pxe boot.
>
>- erik

Thanks, I'll try that! I'd have probably tried already, if I didn't
have bad memories of netbooting OpenBSD on 24x sparc64 machines.

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>    1. Re: No regression tests (erik quanstrom)
>    2. Re: more serial questions (erik quanstrom)
>    3. hg and golang (Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan)
>    4. Re: hg and golang (erik quanstrom)
>    5. Re: hg and golang (Skip Tavakkolian)
>    6. Re: hg and golang (Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan)
>    7. Re: hg and golang (erik quanstrom)
>    8. Re: 9front: /lib/ndb/local clobbered after edit w/ sam
>       (Michael Hansen)
>    9. Re: 9front: /lib/ndb/local clobbered after edit w/ sam
>       (erik quanstrom)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:33:16 -0400
> From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] No regression tests
> Message-ID: <a1a220b20f7bb41d99ca03e57b10820d@brasstown.quanstro.net>
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> On Tue Mar 25 01:51:36 EDT 2014, adriano.verardo@mail.com wrote:
>> A few weeks ago i wrote about an unkillable manager of usb barcode
>> readers.  That code worked perfectly for 5+ years, with absolutely no
>> changes.
>>
>> IMHO the problem seems to be a change in Bell kernel sources, as under
>> 9Atom all works as expected.
>>
>> Unfortunately I can't say what is the last working release, because
>> the problem has been noted for the first time some weeks ago, but the
>> kernel is rebuilt frequently and the sources are upgraded, non
>> regularly, 3/4 times in a year.
>
> that's interesting.  what state are these processes in what are
> the backtraces?
>
> - erik
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:46:42 -0400
> From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] more serial questions
> Message-ID: <956bc41b32c2f94c64d3b81cf565d110@brasstown.quanstro.net>
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>> I didn't add that, your guess is as good as mine.
>
> ok.
>
>> That it was implemented after and I was short on time. They should.
>
> cool.  i wanted to rule out some sort of odd h/w interaction.
>
> - erik
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:25:05 +0530
> From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <vu3rdd@gmail.com>
> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
> Subject: [9fans] hg and golang
> Message-ID:
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> Hello 9fans and plan9 hackers,
>
> Number of plan9 installations at my tiny bedroom in a corner in India,
> went up from 1 to 2, 1st being a raspberry pi and now, a 9atom
> installation on virtualbox that I wanted to mess with, as a cpu
> system.
>
> I searched and didn't find a canonical way to install mercurial and
> golang on plan9. Can someone point to me some instructions? I see from
> the golang build dashboard[1] that golang on plan9 is reasonably
> healthy.
>
> [1] http://build.golang.org/
> PS: This list is great. Digging up the archives has given me access to
> bottomless pit of knowledge and wisdom! Thanks.
> --
>   Ramakrishnan
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:02:53 -0400
> From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] hg and golang
> Message-ID: <acdf66c899cd560a4016987824013fc0@ladd.quanstro.net>
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>> Number of plan9 installations at my tiny bedroom in a corner in India,
>> went up from 1 to 2, 1st being a raspberry pi and now, a 9atom
>> installation on virtualbox that I wanted to mess with, as a cpu
>> system.
>
> hopefully i've got this correct.  rc history to the rescue
> python may or may not work on the standard distribution.  there are some
> ape patches that have not gone in yet.
>
> 	cd /sys/src
> 	hget https://bitbucket.org/jas/cpython/get/2.7-plan9.tar.bz2 |bunzip2|tar
> xv
> 	hget http://selenic.com/hg/archive/b96cb15ec9e0.tar.bz2 |bunzip2|tar xv
> 	rm -f @LongLink
> 	mv jas-cpython-cea9c7fcee30 cpython	# details may vary
> 	mv Mercurial-b96cb15ec9e0 hg		# details may vary
> 	cd cpython
> 	mk
> 	mk stage
> 	mk install
>
> python has some odd troubles with its mkfile, so you might need to mk stage
> more than once.
>
> - erik
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:07:49 -0700
> From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
> Subject: Re: [9fans] hg and golang
> Message-ID:
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>
> hg and python you need are on sources.
> % 9fs sources
> % cd /n/sources/contrib/jas
>
> there is a compiled version here:
> http://www.9legacy.org/download.html
>
> after that 'hg clone' the sources for Go, etc.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <
> vu3rdd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello 9fans and plan9 hackers,
>>
>> Number of plan9 installations at my tiny bedroom in a corner in India,
>> went up from 1 to 2, 1st being a raspberry pi and now, a 9atom
>> installation on virtualbox that I wanted to mess with, as a cpu
>> system.
>>
>> I searched and didn't find a canonical way to install mercurial and
>> golang on plan9. Can someone point to me some instructions? I see from
>> the golang build dashboard[1] that golang on plan9 is reasonably
>> healthy.
>>
>> [1] http://build.golang.org/
>> PS: This list is great. Digging up the archives has given me access to
>> bottomless pit of knowledge and wisdom! Thanks.
>> --
>>   Ramakrishnan
>>
>>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:02:12 +0530
> From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <vu3rdd@gmail.com>
> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
> Subject: Re: [9fans] hg and golang
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> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:32 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
> wrote:
>>> Number of plan9 installations at my tiny bedroom in a corner in India,
>>> went up from 1 to 2, 1st being a raspberry pi and now, a 9atom
>>> installation on virtualbox that I wanted to mess with, as a cpu
>>> system.
>>
>> hopefully i've got this correct.  rc history to the rescue
>> python may or may not work on the standard distribution.  there are some
>> ape patches that have not gone in yet.
>>
>>         cd /sys/src
>>         hget https://bitbucket.org/jas/cpython/get/2.7-plan9.tar.bz2
>> |bunzip2|tar xv
>>         hget http://selenic.com/hg/archive/b96cb15ec9e0.tar.bz2
>> |bunzip2|tar xv
>>         rm -f @LongLink
>>         mv jas-cpython-cea9c7fcee30 cpython     # details may vary
>>         mv Mercurial-b96cb15ec9e0 hg            # details may vary
>>         cd cpython
>>         mk
>
> Thank you Erik.
>
> I got an out of physical memory at this point, while in the middle of
> the build. I will try increasing the memory (I am running on a
> virtualbox instance)
>
>>         mk stage
>>         mk install
>>
>> python has some odd troubles with its mkfile, so you might need to mk
>> stage
>> more than once.
>>
>> - erik
>>
>
>
>
> --
>   Ramakrishnan
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:35:28 -0400
> From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] hg and golang
> Message-ID: <94aef811656f1b459107b8beed12e098@ladd.quanstro.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
>> Thank you Erik.
>>
>> I got an out of physical memory at this point, while in the middle of
>> the build. I will try increasing the memory (I am running on a
>> virtualbox instance)
>
> that's kind of odd.  how much memory are you using, and can you send a
> screenshot?
>
> - erik
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:19:17 -0700
> From: Michael Hansen <mmhansen@gmail.com>
> To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
> Subject: Re: [9fans] 9front: /lib/ndb/local clobbered after edit w/
> 	sam
> Message-ID:
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>>what ssd is it?
>>
>>--
>>cinap
>
> Probably the kind I would have had to buy out of the back of a van, before
> eBay:
> KingSpec KSD-PA25.6-032MS
> (as reported by sysinfo)
>
> I thought I could get away with it, since the Thinkpad is mainly a
> terminal.
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:22:26 -0400
> From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] 9front: /lib/ndb/local clobbered after edit w/
> 	sam
> Message-ID: <f82dc786cbbcb550a065a5b8b78615d5@ladd.quanstro.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
>> Probably the kind I would have had to buy out of the back of a van, before
>> eBay:
>> KingSpec KSD-PA25.6-032MS
>> (as reported by sysinfo)
>>
>> I thought I could get away with it, since the Thinkpad is mainly a
>> terminal.
>
> many thinkpads will pxe boot.
>
> - erik
>
>
>
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Re: [9fans] 9fans Digest, Vol 119, Issue 55

[erik quanstrom]

On Tue Mar 25 21:15:36 EDT 2014, mmhansen@gmail.com wrote:
> >many thinkpads will pxe boot.
> >
> >- erik
>
> Thanks, I'll try that! I'd have probably tried already, if I didn't
> have bad memories of netbooting OpenBSD on 24x sparc64 machines.

using dhcp to boot 100+ nodes on the same p9 network has been
a dream for me.  in fact, i even converted many appliance-like
machines to pxe boot because it made maintence easier.

plan 9 is really awesome at this.

- erik