Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801

2010-09-22 Thread David du Colombier
> why not partition the CF like a normal disk? You means creating a NVRAM partition? That could be another option. In this case, the "nvram" variable will be: nvram=#S/sdC1/nvram -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] plan9port troff no Greek letters

2010-09-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> .FP luxisans > > at the top of your file. > {echo .FP luxisans;echo echo αβδγ '\(*a\(*b\(*d\(*g'}|9 troff -ms|9 tr2post|9 psfonts this did work, as long as i didn't use page. page failed in ghostscript misery. an endless stream of Current allocation mode is local Current file pos

Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801

2010-09-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Sep 22 18:37:17 EDT 2010, 0in...@gmail.com wrote: > > Another thing to check would be the usage of a piece of a CF > > card as NVRAM. > > I use a NVRAM on the CompactFlash on my Soekris net5501. > > I created a FAT partition on the CompactFlash holding the file "plan9.nvr", > then I added

Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801

2010-09-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> network. Another thing to check would be the usage of a piece of a CF > card as NVRAM. the CF shows up as /dev/sdC0. - erik

Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801

2010-09-22 Thread David du Colombier
> Another thing to check would be the usage of a piece of a CF > card as NVRAM. I use a NVRAM on the CompactFlash on my Soekris net5501. I created a FAT partition on the CompactFlash holding the file "plan9.nvr", then I added the following lines to my CPU server plan9.ini. nvram=#S/sdC1/dos!plan

Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801

2010-09-22 Thread frank
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:29:49PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > I can't get a Soekris net4801 box to boot Plan 9 via PXE. > > > > On my Plan 9 fileserver (which also runs ip/dhcpd and ip/tftpd), I > > created /cfg/pxe/, which is > > almost identical to the file I use for a diskless terminal. T

Re: [9fans] plan9port troff no Greek letters

2010-09-22 Thread Rudolf Sykora
>> I can't see any Greek letters. >> Is there sth. simple to do? > > Try using > > .FP luxisans > > at the top of your file. I tried this as soon as sb here mentioned your earlier post where you had proposed the same: http://9fans.net/archive/2010/09/206 However, not better with it. Btw., I observ

Re: [9fans] plan9port troff no Greek letters

2010-09-22 Thread Russ Cox
> my plan9 machine has broken down and I need to continue working. > I use troff with math. When I tried to typeset my text under plan9port > (instead of the native plan9) with > > cat $stem.ms |9 pic|9 eqn|9 troff -ms|9 tr2post | 9 psfonts >$stem.ps > > I can't see any Greek letters. > Is there st

Re: [9fans] cifsd

2010-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Akshat wrote: > Just for the official record: cifsd works perfectly fine with Windows 7. > > Cinap's approach to the problem of packet-based protocols is elegant, > efficient, and through the invent of printf-alike functions, fits well with > the Plan 9 programmin