[9fans] Installation woes

[9fans] Installation woes

[John Preston]

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I've spent the past couple of days trying to get some form of P9
installation up, but I've had a lot of trouble.

The first thing I tried (and the installation that would be ideal for
me, if anyone can help) was installing on an ASUS Eee PC netbook. It
doesn't have a CD drive, and I don't have a USB CD drive, so I tried
dd-ing the ISO onto a USB stick under Linux, but this wouldn't boot. Any
ideas why? Does anyone have any experience with P9 USB installation media?

Afterwards, I tried VirtualBox, which gave me the following error:

panic: assert failed at 0xf018d652

I quickly moved on to QEMU, which worked but had ridiculously slow disk
throughput (the installation would have taken at least 3 hours). This is
on a Dell mini 10 netbook with an Intel Atom so it's bound to be slow,
but I've had much higher transfer speeds with other guest OSes.

VMware Player (using configuration made with EasyVMX) gave me a black
screen when rio loaded, and Bochs worked but was even slower than QEMU.
Can anyone offer me any help with:

1. making USB installation media;
2. speeding up QEMU or Bochs; or
3. getting VirtualBox or VMware Player working?

I haven't tried any pre-built images as I would very much like to go
through the installation process myself.
- -- 
Yours Sincerely,
John Preston

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[9fans] Installation woes

[Jacob Todd]

1. I can't help you there
2. If you can use kvm+kqemu, that will speed disk speed, &c (that's been my
experience). I couldn't do networking for some reason that had to do with my
wireless card.
3. VirtualBox is known to mostly not work, though some people have managed
to get it to. Vmware should work. There's a wiki page about it, you may want
to look at that. I just did an install with vmware workstation that works
great.
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[9fans] Installation woes

[David du Colombier]

> 1. making USB installation media;

See the EXAMPLE section of prep(8).

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/prep

Of course, you need a running Plan 9 and a little
knowledge about the installation process.

-- 
David du Colombier

[9fans] Installation woes

[Fernan Bolando]

For what its worth.

My install on a real hardware was also extremely slow, but after  i enabled
dma it is very much usable. venti and everything
I use virtualbox on several machines including a macbook white and and an
old hp dc7700 and its also very much usable also.
another thing to note is i am using erik's 9atom distro for all my
installation.

There is also 9vx which i used before. If you only need the plan9 tools then
plan9port is an easy way to get them.


On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:14 AM, John Preston <gizmoguy1 at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> I've spent the past couple of days trying to get some form of P9
> installation up, but I've had a lot of trouble.
>
> The first thing I tried (and the installation that would be ideal for
> me, if anyone can help) was installing on an ASUS Eee PC netbook. It
> doesn't have a CD drive, and I don't have a USB CD drive, so I tried
> dd-ing the ISO onto a USB stick under Linux, but this wouldn't boot. Any
> ideas why? Does anyone have any experience with P9 USB installation media?
>
> Afterwards, I tried VirtualBox, which gave me the following error:
>
> panic: assert failed at 0xf018d652
>
> I quickly moved on to QEMU, which worked but had ridiculously slow disk
> throughput (the installation would have taken at least 3 hours). This is
> on a Dell mini 10 netbook with an Intel Atom so it's bound to be slow,
> but I've had much higher transfer speeds with other guest OSes.
>
> VMware Player (using configuration made with EasyVMX) gave me a black
> screen when rio loaded, and Bochs worked but was even slower than QEMU.
> Can anyone offer me any help with:
>
> 1. making USB installation media;
> 2. speeding up QEMU or Bochs; or
> 3. getting VirtualBox or VMware Player working?
>
> I haven't tried any pre-built images as I would very much like to go
> through the installation process myself.
> - --
> Yours Sincerely,
> John Preston
>
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> website at:
>
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[9fans] installation woes

[CoolVibe]

Hey,

Kudo to the folks at bell-labs, for opening up on this one!

Okay, for years I wanted to play around on this system, but when I try to
install it on a fairly generic machine with a Matrox G200, or a S3
Trio64V+ (A generic one, not Diamond), they both hang after 'dossrv:
serving #s/dos', after fiddling with vgadb (just kludging in the
values/offsets that vgainfo gives). Without doing this, rio won't even
start, and just spits out what ends up in vgainfo.txt.

Seems that VGA is my only hurdle here. Hope the driver support gets
better. I'm still very anctious about trying this out.

Oh, and another thing. It would be really nice if this puppy could run in
VMWare. Check http://www.vmware.com/ for more information. This way,
people without the right hardware can still develop software for plan9 in
a virtual machine.

Cheers,
CoolVibe