1 Jun 2005 02:35
1 Jun 2005 12:47
Re: Plan9 installation
<vdharani <at> infernopark.com>
2005-06-01 10:47:12 GMT
2005-06-01 10:47:12 GMT
Russ, thanks for the reply. >> making >> bootsetup do its job? what is more, it doesnt do boot floppy creation >> also. > > maybe a bug has been introduced. people have been working > on the installer recently. installing plan 9 onto a disk already > containing plan 9 is a tricky case and not often tested. can we track and try to solve the issue? when something fails, people tend to reinstall and the problem with bootsetup will panic new or even experienced people. is there any reliable way of getting rid of the problem? like zero-filling some area? > venti is slow for reasons other than bad sector offsets. > i doubt very much that making the sector offsets multiples of 16 matters, > since cylinder boundaries are so often odd anyway. the suggestion (which > i think is my fault) was likely naive paranoia on my part. in that case, can i remove the lines that talk about this alignment in Wiki? i think it will mislead, otherwise. > there should be a new venti by the end of the summer. i have it running > a linux system at mit. i'm going to convert my home venti server over the > summer and hopefully we'll convert the bell labs venti server too. > the new venti code is at least 10x faster. thats great!(Continue reading)
1 Jun 2005 16:35
1 Jun 2005 17:21
Re: OT: drawterm+SPARC Solaris
Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante <at> cs.utwente.nl>
2005-06-01 15:21:47 GMT
2005-06-01 15:21:47 GMT
> drawterm: can't determmine x server byte order > abort 1738 > $ > > Any one seen this message? yes, I got bitten by it too. the (last line of) the big multiline comment some lines above this error message in screen-x11.c seems 'instructive' (lack of better word). I have not recently tried to (re)build drawterm - things may have changed since I last looked at it. (It may pay off to check) if p9p graphic apps work for you, (and if so,) if the drawterm code maybe can be updated to do the same as in p9p src/libdraw/x11-init.c - I think that code is quite similar to the screen-x11.c . At the time, I worked around this in drawterm by commenting out the code that initializes xscreendepth using DefaultDepth (maybe only necessary in my env), and instead setting xscreendepth explicitly in the blocks associated with the tests that use XMatchVisualInfo, and changing the order of these tests such that I use an xscreendepth < 24 which avoids the code that leads to this message. Axel.(Continue reading)
1 Jun 2005 19:53
Re: OT: drawterm+SPARC Solaris
I RATTAN <rattan <at> cps.cmich.edu>
2005-06-01 17:53:10 GMT
2005-06-01 17:53:10 GMT
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Axel Belinfante wrote: > commenting out the code that initializes xscreendepth > using DefaultDepth (maybe only necessary in my env), > and instead setting xscreendepth explicitly in the > blocks associated with the tests that use XMatchVisualInfo, > and changing the order of these tests such that I use an > xscreendepth < 24 which avoids the code that > leads to this message. I commented out the xscreendepth 24 else clause. The byte order problem goes away but auth now insists in using netkey auth approach.. -ishwar > > Axel. >
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2 Jun 2005 03:59
Re: NTFS support
Russ Cox <russcox <at> gmail.com>
2005-06-02 01:59:59 GMT
2005-06-02 01:59:59 GMT
> i'm very close. i just need a bootsect.p9 you cannot use the nt boot loader menu to boot plan 9 if your c drive is ntfs. you have to install a boot manager. boot plan 9 from a floppy and then run 9fs sources cp /n/sources/contrib/rsc/mbr.bootmgr /386 disk/mbr -m /386/mbr.bootmgr /dev/sdC0/data and you will have a nice boot menu that lets you select between plan 9 and nt.
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