Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> Ok, now it's working. I'm not sure why it doesn't work last time(maybe I
> was doing something wrong). But now I have several more questions about
> this image:

easy for little errors to creep in when one is unsure of the details.
(as i'm experiencing right now with something else.)

> At first it seems that not every plan 9 programs are avalible. For
> example man doesn't work becouse it cannot run /bin/troff. Also the
> "page" program seems not to be avalible here.

if you're using the atom usb install image, it is very sparse.  only the programs
required for install are included.  you can compile the rest of the system,
though, since all the source is there.

> Second question: how can I mount pendrive in Plan 9. I've tried to
> follow steps provided by [1] but it seems that there aren't any binaries in
> /bin/usb directory. What is going wrong?
>
> [1] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/usbdisk

it should mount itself.  do you see usb/disk... in the console window?
what about "cat /dev/kmesg"?

- erik