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From: "Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente" <lorenzobivens@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 installation in qemu
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:38:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb4c8d190706140838p5f589348jc04a0c2e3808c7fa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070614105008.0052a4fb.Jens.Arm@gmx.de>

On 6/14/07, Jens Arm <Jens.Arm@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm new to p9 and before installing on real hardware I want to try it in qemu.

Hello and welcome on board!

I'll suggest that you better use the preloaded image of plan 9
avaliable on oszoo.org ... Installing Plan 9 on qemu can be very slow
because of the lack of DMA transfers.

> I have some questions about p9:
>
> 1.
> When installing from local media (CD) the CD gets mounted by the installer with
> "mount /srv/9660 /n/distmedia /dev/sdD0/data" so why I have to enter "/" at the prompt
> "Location of archives [browse]:" and not "/n/distmedia" where the CD is mounted? What is correct?
> Looks like "/" ist working, but it is correct?
/dev/sdD0/data is probably correct (If your cd is sdD0, it is correct)
/ is correct


>
> 2.
> Updating the installed p9 with new daily ISO burned on CD does not work as described in the wiki
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Staying_up_to_date/index.html
>
> I get an error that /dist/replica/cd can not be found. Tested on real hardware, too (same error)
> Must I login with another user as glenda or is updating from CD broken?

I don't know... I suggest ip/ipconfig && ndb/dns -r && pull (I am
supposing you have avaliable networking capabilities)


> 3.
> How can I change the font of the terminal window and all the other (sysload viewer) ... permanently to that of acme or others?

In /usr/$user/lib/profile you can do so... But I think that some apps
require extra settings, like acme (-F option, then dump ;) )

Cheers!


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-14 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-14  8:50 Jens Arm
2007-06-14  9:02 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-06-14 15:38 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente [this message]
2007-06-15  7:58   ` Jens Arm

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