From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:38:29 -0500 From: "Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 installation in qemu In-Reply-To: <20070614105008.0052a4fb.Jens.Arm@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070614105008.0052a4fb.Jens.Arm@gmx.de> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7e74134c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 6/14/07, Jens Arm 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!