From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110917163620.0ba31132@kolari.ethans.dre.am> References: <20110917163620.0ba31132@kolari.ethans.dre.am> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:29:19 -0700 Message-ID: From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Announcing Inferno for Android phones Topicbox-Message-UUID: 25ba135a-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 OK, more data this morning. Since the cyanogen upgrade, no linux vm I have on OSX/VMWare can enumerate the phone over USB. This is a very common problem as revealed by any search. On the one linux box I have, the phone is enumerated as a USB storage. There may be some setting I need to reset ... but that box, having been turned off since april, seems to have decided it can't do wifi more ... so, that's not an option at present! I did try downloading the android sdk on a clean vmware-based linux platform. No fastboot in there. So far the only fastboot I have is the one I built from source during android bootcamp. You can NOT install inferno from anything but Linux. There are a few linux tool dependencies in th scripts that can not be satisfied (yet) on a mac. I am going to see what is possible. I continue to be amused that all these Java "write once run everywhere" environments always come with a huge stack of "this CPU, this OS, this version" programs without which they can not function. Hmm. All I need with inferno is emu. Maybe inferno can teach them some things :-) Finally, it's a linux phone: I keep thinking I ought to be able to do the install scripts on the phone, not on some other box and download them. If I can figure out where to plug in an SD card -- it claims to have one! -- I might just give that a go. ron