Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0

2011-01-01 Thread erik quanstrom
> I tried to do a fresh reinstall a few times, so in my case it's at > least repeatable on > a macbook. your macbook. milage seems to vary. frustrating to not know on what. > > if so, can you try running fdisk and prep by hand > > and seeing if the output makes sense?  also, one > > can compare

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0

2011-01-01 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:05 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error >> Press a key to reboot... >> >> reinstalling 9atom over the plan9.iso installation fixed everything, >> it's bootable and with netwrok support. > > that's quite wierd.  can you reproduce this error? I

[9fans] wavelan pci

2011-01-01 Thread Steve Simon
Has been asked before but I wonder if there is an update. anyone used a pci wifi card with native plan9 successfully? if not I could use a wavelan pcmcia with a pcmcia PCI adapter... -Steve

Re: [9fans] ape sockets and plan9

2011-01-01 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Fernan Bolando wrote: > rminnich/sysiso ?? > sysfromiso -- the intent of this is to provide an hg tree that is an exact copy of /sys/src and inlcude, so you can build a full / from it. It's interesting to watch the continuing improvements Geoff and others pu

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0

2011-01-01 Thread erik quanstrom
> MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error > Press a key to reboot... > > reinstalling 9atom over the plan9.iso installation fixed everything, > it's bootable and with netwrok support. that's quite wierd. can you reproduce this error? if so, can you try running fdisk and prep by hand and seeing if

Re: [9fans] ape sockets and plan9

2011-01-01 Thread erik quanstrom
> bitbucket is an easy way for me to get at some of the plan9 bleeding edge, > having multiple points of information does tend to confuse me. > > Here is my current list of bleeding edge links and how i might describe them > rminnich/9vx --- 9vx with rons fixes > yiyus/9vx --- 9vx with yiyus fixes

Re: [9fans] kerTeX install and setup

2011-01-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
Sorry for this - couple of things I felt were important, but forgot to mention. kertex/tex is too verbose for a command that takes input from stdin by default. It would be nice to get rid of the version header and all that stuff (I'm already dreading the re-compile and re-install processes). And I

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0

2011-01-01 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:58 AM, wrote: >> Weird i tried similar settings a few days ago and it didnt work. Can you >> post the vdi and hdd  settings too? > > I had some success yesterday, but more so with Erik's 9atom > ISO than the one from the labs.  It handled the VirtualBox > disk emulation

[9fans] kerTeX install and setup

2011-01-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
Dæmonic soufflés have no rôle in naïve œvres. I decided to try kerTeX on Plan 9 earlier today. I'm a bit displeased with the installation procedure. Firstly, would the maintainer perhaps consider putting this package up as a contrib install (using fgb's contrib suite)? This would make the process