[9fans] It is finally alive !!

[9fans] It is finally alive !!

[Leonardo Valencia]

Greetings Plan9 community,

I finally got my plan9 installation to work fine with qemu and I just 
wanted to share my joy with all of you.

It took me a while because I spent a couple weeks just reading all 
possible information about plan9, sadly enough I had no idea of the 
existence of the OS, it came to my attention thanks to a recent Slashdot 
post.

The OS is great, I got 9fs to work fine with the outside world (I am 
connected to sources right now). Also nntpfs works fine I even read the 
latest posts in comp.os.plan9 in my /mnt/news/comp/os/plan9 directory. 
Too bad I could not post from there too.

Anyway, I already have tons of question that I will defer for a better 
moment if I don't find answers for them online first. In the meantime I 
wonder what happened to all the "cross" compilers (like 2c, 3c, etc ) 
they seem to be missing from the 386/bin dir.

Regards,

-Leonardo Valencia

Re: [9fans] It is finally alive !!

[andrey mirtchovski]

> Anyway, I already have tons of question that I will defer for a better
> moment if I don't find answers for them online first. In the meantime I
> wonder what happened to all the "cross" compilers (like 2c, 3c, etc )
> they seem to be missing from the 386/bin dir.

i don't think all the compilers are "compiled" in, but if you go to
/sys/src/cmd/ and do a 'mk all; mk install' you'll get at least a few
more. try for example the alpha compilers:

for(i in a c l) { cd /sys/src/cmd/7$i && mk install }

then try:

%objtype=alpha mk all

in /sys/src/cmd. it'll be a useless exercise as you don't have any
alpha machines (i presume) but still worth a try, just for kicks.

do ask your questions here, many of us keep learning when another,
more knowledgable 9fan responds, even if we think we know the answer
:)

Re: [9fans] It is finally alive !!

[Leonardo Valencia]

andrey mirtchovski wrote:

> 
> i don't think all the compilers are "compiled" in, but if you go to
> /sys/src/cmd/ and do a 'mk all; mk install' you'll get at least a few
> more. try for example the alpha compilers:
> 
> for(i in a c l) { cd /sys/src/cmd/7$i && mk install }
> 
> then try:
> 
> %objtype=alpha mk all
> 
> in /sys/src/cmd. it'll be a useless exercise as you don't have any
> alpha machines (i presume) but still worth a try, just for kicks.
> 

Thanks a lot for the great pointer ! I will compile a couple of them 
just for fun. I don't have any alpha machines around, but I think qemu 
can emulate some other ones (like ppc and mips) not sure if plan9 will 
install on those emulations but I can try.


> do ask your questions here, many of us keep learning when another,
> more knowledgable 9fan responds, even if we think we know the answer
> :)
> 

I will ask my questions here then (not tonight though) thanks again for 
your quick response!

Regards,

-Leonardo Valencia

Re: [9fans] It is finally alive !!

[csant]

> Greetings Plan9 community,
>
> I finally got my plan9 installation to work fine with qemu and I just  
> wanted to share my joy with all of you.
Welcome! I am sure you will have lots of fun discovering the system :)
/c (on his way discovering the system...)

Re: [9fans] It is finally alive !!

[erik quanstrom]

doesn't the post file work for you?

in the old days, one could cd /usr/spool/news/comp/os/plan9/ 
(i may have that path slightly wrong -- it's been a while) 
and read from there.

- erik

On Fri Aug  4 00:09:48 CDT 2006, leov_plan9@mephisto.cotse.net wrote:
> The OS is great, I got 9fs to work fine with the outside world (I am 
> connected to sources right now). Also nntpfs works fine I even read the 
> latest posts in comp.os.plan9 in my /mnt/news/comp/os/plan9 directory. 
> Too bad I could not post from there too.
> 
> Anyway, I already have tons of question that I will defer for a better 
> moment if I don't find answers for them online first. In the meantime I 
> wonder what happened to all the "cross" compilers (like 2c, 3c, etc ) 
> they seem to be missing from the 386/bin dir.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Leonardo Valencia

Re: [9fans] It is finally alive !!

[John Floren]

On 8/4/06, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> doesn't the post file work for you?
>
> in the old days, one could cd /usr/spool/news/comp/os/plan9/
> (i may have that path slightly wrong -- it's been a while)
> and read from there.
>
> - erik
You can't post directly to c.o.plan9

John
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