[9fans] Errors trying to install plan9

[9fans] Errors trying to install plan9

[Eugene Gorodinsky]

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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?

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Re: [9fans] Errors trying to install plan9

[Yaroslav]

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Hoping Andrey does not mind me attaching this...
Seriously, why to seek for a different boot source when cdboot works?
Boot it, run it, learn it...

2010/11/14 Eugene Gorodinsky <e.gorodinsky@gmail.com>:
> 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?



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- Yaroslav

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Re: [9fans] Errors trying to install plan9

[John Floren]

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?

Re: [9fans] Errors trying to install plan9

[Eugene Gorodinsky]

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I've managed to install plan9. Finally.  It appears I misunderstood the
error message (messages actually - plural). The problem was that the
hard-drive image I created wasn't big enough. 1GB seems to be enough though.
However my troubles aren't over it seems, since as soon as I log in as
glenda the screen goes blank or white with a bit of garbage (blank when the
mode is 640x480x8, white when the mode is 800x600x16 or 800x600x24)

2010/11/14 Eugene Gorodinsky <e.gorodinsky@gmail.com>

> 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?
>

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