[9fans] dial-up connections

[9fans] dial-up connections

[Ben]

For those of us who don't have ethernet networks, is there anyway to
connect to an ISP through modem dial-up?  I notice that documentation
on this is almost nonexistant...

[9fans] Re: dial-up connections

[Wladimir Mutel]

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÷ ÓÔÁÔØÅ <dd8c4466.0206222134.721be742@posting.google.com> Ben ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ(Á):
> For those of us who don't have ethernet networks, is there anyway to
> connect to an ISP through modem dial-up?  I notice that documentation
> on this is almost nonexistant...

	Is there comething unclear in 
	http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/ppp  ?

[9fans] Plan 9 incompatible with EZ-BIOS/EZ-Drive?

[John DeGood]

1) I used Win98SE to create a bootable 512 MB FAT16 partition.

2) I installed Plan 9 4th edition, using Plan 9 fdisk to create a PLAN9
partition.  Here is the output of fdisk:

   term% disk/fdisk /dev/sdC0/data
   cylinder = 2064384 bytes
    * p1                 0  248         (248 cylinders, 488.25 MB) type 85
      p2               248  496         (248 cylinders, 488.25 MB) PLAN9
      empty            496 1023         (527 cylinders, 1.01 GB)

Note that the reported size of the FAT16 partition is wrong!

3) If I run Windows fdisk after the Plan 9 installation, the PLAN9 partition
does not appear.  If I add a new partition using Windows fdisk it creates it
right after the FAT16 partition, ignoring the PLAN9 partition.

4) I suspect the Plan 9 partition overlaps the FAT16 partition.

Discussion:  This system has an old Intel motherboard whose BIOS screws up
the geometry for "large" IDE drives (like this 2.1 GB AC22100), so as a
workaround the Western Digital-furnished EZ-BIOS (aka EZ-Drive)
<http://www.phoenix.com/en/products/drive+utilities/ezbios.htm> allows
Windows to boot from this drive.

"type 85" (0x55) is the partition ID for EZ-BIOS.  From
<http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html>:

   55 EZ-Drive

   EZ-Drive is another disk manager (by MicroHouse, 1992).
   Linux kernel versions older than 1.3.29 do not coexist with EZD.

Hypothesis:  It appears that Plan 9 4th Edition does not (yet) coexist with
EZD?

John