From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4BCD85B5.1060404@tecmav.com> <4BCD8C0E.7080003@maht0x0r.net> <4BCD9019.1060601@tecmav.com> <678bce3e119471692ffa8a16e7999a45@kw.quanstro.net> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:45:13 +0800 Message-ID: From: Fernan Bolando To: ebo@sandien.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] updating 9vx root Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0b1ea46c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:29 PM, EBo wrote: > Fernan Bolando said: > >> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:49 PM, EBo wrote: >> > >> > what is the procedure for either updating the entire 9vx root, or sett= ing up >> > and building all the special customizations to build an up to date sys= tem? >> > >> > For background, I am running the newest 9vx/vx32 sources and have trie= d >> > various combinations of 9vx-0.12 (which is missing libc.a), the full t= ree that >> > was based on (a "pull -s /" overloads some customized program and rend= ers the >> > root unbootable), root extracted from 9aton.iso (which gives me error = messages >> > about not having kfs setup). >> > >> > Thanks and best regards, >> > >> have you tried replica/pull? >> I have not used 9vx for sometime since I got my atom motherboard >> working natively, But I remember doing a replica/pull to update my 9vx >> installation. I did get a bunch of permission problem, if you do a >> search in 9fans archive you should see an advice from andrey on how to >> fix it. > > sorry I was not clear with the above. =A0Yes, but I used glenda's pull sc= ript. > > I'm looking up andrey's comments now... > > Around the time Russ first announced 9vx, I remember reading that updating 9vx was very similar to updating a native installation in which case it should be through replica. I dont however remember rendering my 9vx non-bootable after the update, so I am not really sure what is going on your installation. --=20 http://www.fernski.com