From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Haas To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] problems installing the plan9 distribution on fileserver In-Reply-To: <200303270223.h2R2Nsv03287@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:15:36 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 85772db6-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Dan Cross wrote: > > I'm a little surprised your du -a /root | grep inst didn't see > /root/dist/replica/inst; that's on sources, but maybe it's not making > it into the installation logs or something. Anyway, I'd do a pull, and > if /dist/replica/inst doesn't exist, copy it off of sources by hand. > Then you can do: > So, if I read this correctly: > 9fs sources > mount the sources.cs.bell-labs.com namespace onto my /n/sources ... > bind /n/sources/plan9 /n/dist > make it so the plan9 distribution appears in /n/dist ... > srv $FILESERVER > mount -c /srv/$FILESERVER /n/inst > mount the fileserver namespace onto /n/inst > replica/pull -v /dist/replica/inst > > Which will populate /n/inst with the current version of the system from > ?? I don't have a /dist/replica/inst, but if I did... would this accomplish the task of installing the plan9 distribution onto the fileserver? I see above you mention I may have to copy it from sources.. I'll investigate this after a good night's rest. > sources. You might want to wait a while though; rsc is pushing out > some changes to namespace and some other stuff that (I don't think) > have hit sources yet, but which will be backwards incompatible. It's > worth it to wait so you avoid the incompatibility. > Define "a while"... tonight? a couple of days? I just finished a pull and got a lot of new files... I'll give it another look in the morning. If I have to I can eventually rebuild everything as I am still experimenting, but hopefully I can get it to a state to play with limbo and some distributed programming (implement the travelling salesperson problem). Any pointers on distributed programming in Plan 9? Thank you very much for your reply! It has helped to clarify a lot in regards to exploring Plan 9. --- Matthew Haas Squirrel's Law #209203923: "Thou shalt ignoreth Corning/Geneseo, NY all RAM specifications, they're noo scottish"