[9fans] Re: ahoi.. well would you help me out?

[9fans] Re: ahoi.. well would you help me out?

[boyd, rounin]

forwarded.  there are people who know more about it than me.

----- Original Message -----
From: bituman
To: boyd@insultant.net
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:49 AM
Subject: ahoi.. well would you help me out?


Ahoi.
I am eagerly trying to install plan9 in my x86 P4 with MSI 865 MB machine..
actually it is my second install the first went without problems on my x86
AMD Athlon XP with Gigabyte MB. And of course I have problems ;)
The first is: I simply cannot post the the plan9 mail list.. I can do
whatever I want.. I cant post there.. but I CAN receive the emails other
post. Interesting.
Since as I see you're an active member I am asking you my questions. I hope
you can answer them or can forward it to the plan9 mail list.
1: why can't I post to the mail list.
Here's the letter I wanted to post.. (sorry my my bad English)

Ahoi. Finally I could install my plan9 system.
1: would you correct the cd boot loader so that in case it recognizes the cd
az sdD1 it wouldn't try to boot sdD0!cdboot!9pcflop.gz
(anyways it can be corrected)
2: bootcfg: ive installed plan9 to a secondary master hdd. On that one there
's no bootable os just plan9.. so plan9 cannot find winnt boot.ini, which is
on primary master HDD.
Using the plan9 option is no solution.. plan9 makes the plan9 partition
active, but whenever I boot from that HDD lilo boot screen comes in with old
config. (I had gentoo previously).
If I manually modify winnt's boot.ini.. screen goes blank at boot and
restart.
(Maybe I am too lame for direct accessing boot.ini.. what should I type in
if I want secondary master HDD partition 1 (that hosts plan9) to boot?
3: I am working on the boot problem now, but I will also need info how to
setup an adsl connection with plan9. is it possible? In every installation
guide there's a section how to set up networking, but not a single line on
how to set up an adsl connection.
Thnx

Re: [9fans] Re: ahoi.. well would you help me out?

[andrey mirtchovski]

> 1: would you correct the cd boot loader so that in case it recognizes the cd
> az sdD1 it wouldn't try to boot sdD0!cdboot!9pcflop.gz

you can do that from plan9.ini once you've fixed your other booting
problems.

> 3: I am working on the boot problem now, but I will also need info how to
> setup an adsl connection with plan9. is it possible? In every installation
> guide there's a section how to set up networking, but not a single line on
> how to set up an adsl connection.
> Thnx

adsl is the same as other networking -- if you have a static IP
address you tell it as arguments to ipconfig, if your adsl provider
does dhcp you uncomment "ip/ipconfig" in termrc or cpurc (termrc if
you've just installed, cpurc if you're building a "proper" plan9
network).

as for the booting: you have more than one OS on that machine,
right?  if you're using LILO there are plenty of hints in the archives
on how to set it up.  If you're using a different boot loader you may
have to give the list a bit more information about it before somebody
shows up with a solution :)

andrey

Re: [9fans] Re: ahoi.. well would you help me out?

[9nut]

>> 3: I am working on the boot problem now, but I will also need info how to
>> setup an adsl connection with plan9. is it possible? In every installation
>> guide there's a section how to set up networking, but not a single line on
>> how to set up an adsl connection.
>> Thnx
>
> adsl is the same as other networking -- if you have a static IP
> address you tell it as arguments to ipconfig, if your adsl provider
> does dhcp you uncomment "ip/ipconfig" in termrc or cpurc (termrc if
> you've just installed, cpurc if you're building a "proper" plan9
> network).

I'm wondering if the original question is about PPPoE as in
directly hooking to an ADSL modem. In that case ip/pppoe
does what is needed.