Re: [9fans] New user question

Re: [9fans] New user question

[philo]

--- mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote:

From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New user question
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:45:12 -0700

the following should do it from the live cd:

fossil/fossil -c 'srv fossil' –f /dev/sdC0/fossil
mount /srv/fossil /n/fossil

if your fossil was configured correctly during install, you can skip
the '-c 'srv fossil'' part.

This is the exact error I rcvd when trying as you have suggested above;

attach main as glenda: connection not authenticated, not console

mount /n/fossil  cannot attach as none before authenticated


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Re: [9fans] New user question

[Pietro Gagliardi]

You need to add yourself to the group sys.

1) Reboot:
		fshalt -r
2) Log in as user sys.
3) Type
		con -l /srv/fscons
4) There, type
		uname sys +(your user name)
	For example, if your user name is philo:
		uname sys +philo
5) Hit ctrl+\ and type
		q
6) Reboot and log in and try again.

On Mar 6, 2008, at 6:55 PM, philo wrote:

>
>
> --- mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote:
>
> From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
> To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [9fans] New user question
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:45:12 -0700
>
> the following should do it from the live cd:
>
> fossil/fossil -c 'srv fossil' –f /dev/sdC0/fossil
> mount /srv/fossil /n/fossil
>
> if your fossil was configured correctly during install, you can skip
> the '-c 'srv fossil'' part.
>
> This is the exact error I rcvd when trying as you have suggested  
> above;
>
> attach main as glenda: connection not authenticated, not console
>
> mount /n/fossil  cannot attach as none before authenticated
>
>
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Re: [9fans] New user question

[andrey mirtchovski]

or, you can try "-c 'srv -AWP fossil'" on the command line. change
'fossil' to something else (and as the argument to mount) if it
complains that 'fossil' is already used.

Re: [9fans] New user question

[Pietro Gagliardi]

Why are you running from a live CD?

On Mar 6, 2008, at 7:46 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:

> or, you can try "-c 'srv -AWP fossil'" on the command line. change
> 'fossil' to something else (and as the argument to mount) if it
> complains that 'fossil' is already used.

Re: [9fans] New user question

[Christopher Nielsen]

Probably for the same reason I do when the occasion arises.
It is conveniently a rescue environment too.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> Why are you running from a live CD?

--
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin

Re: [9fans] New user question

[erik quanstrom]

> Probably for the same reason I do when the occasion arises.
> It is conveniently a rescue environment too.
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> > Why are you running from a live CD?

i find it even more convienent to leave a small kfs around and leave
a non-default entry in plan9.ini which uses it as root.  then, should
the need arise, i can just enter the number of the resecue option on
boot.  looking for a cd is positively no fun when things are not working.

- erik

Re: [9fans] New user question

[philo]

--- quanstro@coraid.com wrote:

From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] New user question
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:05:43 -0500

> Probably for the same reason I do when the occasion arises.
> It is conveniently a rescue environment too.
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> > Why are you running from a live CD?

i find it even more convienent to leave a small kfs around and leave
a non-default entry in plan9.ini which uses it as root.  then, should
the need arise, i can just enter the number of the resecue option on
boot.  looking for a cd is positively no fun when things are not working.

- erik


I have two CD's so if I ever need one
I can get twice as frustrated when they are both lost somewhere <G>



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Re: [9fans] New user question

[andrey mirtchovski]

the -AWP switches apply to the srv command, so they're described in
fossilcons(8). i only know them because they were used quite often in
fossil's early days.

–A    run with no authentication
–P    run with no permission checking
–W    allow wstat to make arbitrary changes to the user and group fields

cheers: andrey

>  I can see you really know your stuff there.
>  That -AWP switch was definately not intuitively obvious for a newbie.
>  What does the -AWP switch actually mean?
>
>  Though the man pages seemed to cover the commands pretty well,
>  I am a bit "in the dark" on the meaning of all the switches.

Re: [9fans] New user question

[philo]

--- cnielsen@pobox.com wrote:

From: "Christopher Nielsen" <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New user question
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:58:26 -0800

Probably for the same reason I do when the occasion arises.
It is conveniently a rescue environment too.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> Why are you running from a live CD?



I am totally new to Plan 9. It's not yet been two weeks.
The HD installation is fine but I am merely trying to learn how Plan 9 works.

Having figured out how to mount the cdrom from my Plan 9 installation...
I wanted to do just the opposite and learn how to mount the HD from the "live" cd.
Just part of the learning process.

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Re: [9fans] New user question

[philo]

--- mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote:

From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New user question
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:46:12 -0700

or, you can try "-c 'srv -AWP fossil'" on the command line. change
'fossil' to something else (and as the argument to mount) if it
complains that 'fossil' is already used.


Yes sir!!!
that did the trick thank you!

I can see you really know your stuff there.
That -AWP switch was definately not intuitively obvious for a newbie.
What does the -AWP switch actually mean?

Though the man pages seemed to cover the commands pretty well,
I am a bit "in the dark" on the meaning of all the switches.

Philo




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Re: [9fans] New user question

[andrey mirtchovski]

the following should do it from the live cd:

fossil/fossil -c 'srv fossil' –f /dev/sdC0/fossil
mount /srv/fossil /n/fossil

if your fossil was configured correctly during install, you can skip
the '-c 'srv fossil'' part.

Re: [9fans] New user question

[ron minnich]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:28 PM, philo <Philo565@tuol.org> wrote:

>
>
>  However thus far I have been unable to access the fossil partition where Plan 9 is installed
>
>

what command are you using? What does ls -l /dev/sdC0 look like?

ron

[9fans] New user question

[philo]

I am still unable to mount my harddrive Plan 9 installation when booted up from the Plan 9 cd.

To mount the HD's dos partition all I need to do is:


dossrv
mount /srv/dos /n/dos /dev/sdC0/dos

I can then navigate to /n/dos to read the data on the harddrive.


However thus far I have been unable to access the fossil partition where Plan 9 is installed


I'd appreciate advice as to what I'd have to do to start a fossil server
and then mount it

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