From: John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Errors trying to install plan9
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:07:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=2PksHzM4ZAiNnWCVp-WZ4qcQGyO7DTLf1pifc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=DbTG2hnrK+P1606M2fUr8mjbpqt9Z5RpZ46XZ@mail.gmail.com>
IIRC, the net install thing hasn't worked for quite a while, since
almost everybody installs from a CDROM these days. Maybe try
downloading the image again? I think sometimes the image gets messed
up for a day, then the next daily rebuild fixes it. Maybe I'll try to
install on a VM later today.
John
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Eugene Gorodinsky
<e.gorodinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list!
> I've been trying to install plan9 today, on a qemu vm. When trying to
> install from local the installer seems unable to find quite a few files in
> plan9's src directory. It seems there's some problem with the cdimage. I
> tried booting from the floppy image, but got stuck at the point where one
> needs to enter boot media (it seems I need something of the form fd0!file,
> but I have no idea what file needs to be specified)
> Also, when trying to install in qemu from net, the installer cannot
> autoconfigure network from dhcp, and doesn't work on manual configuration
> either (I tried 10.0.2.1 for gateway, 10.0.2.15 for ip and 255.255.255.0 for
> netmask, which should be the correct qemu settings). The boot prompt
> indicates that the virtual network card has been found, though. Has anyone
> tried to do a netinstall of plan9 in qemu?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-14 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-14 19:14 Eugene Gorodinsky
2010-11-14 19:37 ` Yaroslav
2010-11-14 20:07 ` John Floren [this message]
2010-11-15 17:13 ` Eugene Gorodinsky
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