[9fans] reamfs strangitude

[9fans] reamfs strangitude

[James Carter]

still not having a working gfx card i've been trying to get some of the
install done without rio, using a method similar to , but not as
effective as, robin bradley's. pick, part and prepdisk all work fine,
but when it attempts to ream the filesystem i get the following error:

	echo: write error: xterm: Error 50, errno 1: Too big
	/srv/log: rc: can't open

the /srv/log bit is because my rio-less install is not perfect but the
xterm(?!) error is puzzling. my plan9 partition is a little over a
gigabyte.

what is too big?

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 J.F.Carter                    <URL:http://www.jfc.cx/>

Re: [9fans] reamfs strangitude

[rsc]

	echo: write error: xterm: Error 50, errno 1: Too big
	/srv/log: rc: can't open

Change the definition of log in /rc/bin/dist/defs

xterm: Error 50, errno 1: Too big
is the current value of Egreg in the kernel source.
Egreg is used for things that shouldn't really
happen.  In this case, /srv thought you were
posting a service rather than writing to one
and thus complained because the write was
far bigger than a typical decimal number should be.

Russ