Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions

[ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>]

There's confusion here, and I am partly to blame ...

if you get googlecode.com/p/nix-os

you'll get a file system image that will be usable on a 32-bit
machine. We use it with 9vx. That image includes all the bits you need
to build and boot a NIX kernel. The intent of this distro is to allow
32-bit users to create 64-bit kernels and test. So the nix-os repo is
designed to let you set up on a 32-bit machine and bootstrap a
separate 64-bit machine. We thus envision you having more than one
system available.

I use it as follows:
hg clone http://googlecode.com/p/nix-os nix-os
cd nix-os
./9vx.OSX10.6 -r . -u rminnich
(get on the machine)
objtype=386
cd /sys/src/ape/lib
mk install
cd /sys/src
objtype=amd64
mk install
cd /sys/src/nix/k10
mk install

You are then good to go, unless I missed a step. You need some 386
bits from ape to build the 64-bit code.

We've set up nix-os root file system to play nice with 9vx, which is
why we include a 9vx for osx in the file system.

so to repeat: nix-os is a mercurial image of a root file system for
32-bit nodes, and it is intended to make it easy for you to boot
64-bit nodes. We assumed that you had at least one 32-bit and one
64-bit system.

I hope this helps a little.

ron