Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread kvik
> Thanks, I know that; I was asking where the list comes from since the > one I remembered to be in the old wiki apparently died with it. I pulled most of the articles into a new wiki, including the unix29 lists. No information considered dead. -- 9fans: 9f

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Humm
Quoth Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir: Is that the old list of https://code.9front.org/wiki ? It's a proper wiki with the new repo located at http://only9fans.com/garden/wiki.9front.org/HEAD/info.html Thanks, I know that; I was asking where the list comes from since the one I remembered to be i

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2021-12-28 Thread ori
Quoth Humm : > Quoth Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir: > >9front wiki has some too, for example: http://wiki.9front.org/unix2plan9 > > Is that the old list of https://code.9front.org/wiki ? > Yes, though probably with some updates (I haven't been watching the repos) ---

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
> Is that the old list of https://code.9front.org/wiki ? It's a proper wiki with the new repo located at http://only9fans.com/garden/wiki.9front.org/HEAD/info.html -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T5888591114a7cf34-M25bb15

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Humm
Quoth Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir: 9front wiki has some too, for example: http://wiki.9front.org/unix2plan9 Is that the old list of https://code.9front.org/wiki ? -- Humm -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T5888591114a7

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 01:20:20 +0100 Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote: > 9front wiki has some too, for example: > http://wiki.9front.org/unix2plan9 Excellent! Just what I needed to get started with the tinkering. Þakka þér fyrir / tack ... -- Duke ** Text only please. Bottom post is best for m

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
CD's are so 1995. For a quick intro, use a RPi4 with 9pi on a microSD card, and Bob's your uncle. On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 6:36 PM wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021, at 08:29, Stanley Lieber wrote: > > On December 28, 2021 10:42:27 PM UTC, Humm > wrote: > >>Quoth Duke Normandin: > >>> I'm new to Pla

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread vic . thacker
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021, at 08:29, Stanley Lieber wrote: > On December 28, 2021 10:42:27 PM UTC, Humm wrote: >>Quoth Duke Normandin: >>> I'm new to Plan9. I don't know fuck all! So I gotta start at the >>> beginning - NOT at sysadmin level. Off to Google ... >> >>The beginning is the name. The thing

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
9front wiki has some too, for example: http://wiki.9front.org/unix2plan9 -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T5888591114a7cf34-Md0bc0e3bc85267db47ebd6a5 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Stanley Lieber
On December 28, 2021 10:42:27 PM UTC, Humm wrote: >Quoth Duke Normandin: >> I'm new to Plan9. I don't know fuck all! So I gotta start at the >> beginning - NOT at sysadmin level. Off to Google ... > >The beginning is the name. The thing you use is “9front”. The abandoned >thing is “Plan 9”. No

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:16:06 -0800 Bakul Shah wrote: > You may find > https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/plan9_desktop.html useful. I do - thanks! -- Duke ** Text only please. Bottom post is best for me ** -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.to

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Bakul Shah
On Dec 28, 2021, at 9:35 AM, Duke Normandin wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:28:52 -0800 > Eli Cohen wrote: > >> if you're not accustomed to plan 9 > > Worst than that! I don't know squat about it. Just manage to > install it 10 minutes ago. I know Unix though and that's where I'm > getting h

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Humm
Quoth Duke Normandin: I'm new to Plan9. I don't know fuck all! So I gotta start at the beginning - NOT at sysadmin level. Off to Google ... The beginning is the name. The thing you use is “9front”. The abandoned thing is “Plan 9”. Note the blank. -- Humm -

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread hiro
you mean you want less concise text and more low-quality multimedia cosplay? On 12/28/21, Duke Normandin wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:12:37 +0100 > hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> my point was that if they weren't pedantic they wouldn't be any >> good > > Here's MY point: > > https://you

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread hiro
sure, i don't want every website to read like a manual page. but i want every manual page to be pedantic in the sense that it should be concise and informative. your example fits this definition. On 12/28/21, Duke Normandin wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:12:37 +0100 > hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wr

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:12:37 +0100 hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > my point was that if they weren't pedantic they wouldn't be any > good Here's MY point: https://youtu.be/SoGLU1l7LwY Short and sweet and to the point. Gimme more ... :) -- Duke ** Text only please. Bottom post is best for me **

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:12:37 +0100 hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > my point was that if they weren't pedantic they wouldn't be any > good There's a time for pedantic and there a time for not so much. There's way too much "Bullshit baffles brains" going on - on the web - IMHO. At the onset, show

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread hiro
my point was that if they weren't pedantic they wouldn't be any good On 12/28/21, Duke Normandin wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:01:17 +0100 > hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> manuals are always pedantic. > > maybe you haven't lived long enough to have stumbled on the good > ones. :) > -- > D

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:01:17 +0100 hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > manuals are always pedantic. maybe you haven't lived long enough to have stumbled on the good ones. :) -- Duke ** Text only please. Bottom post is best for me ** -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread hiro
manuals are always pedantic. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T5888591114a7cf34-M3a89b0597c81aafec24d523f Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 03:35:29 +0900 vic.thac...@fastmail.fm wrote: [snip] > 9front and Plan 9 are multi-user/multi-tasking distributed > operating environments. How 9front and Plan 9 are used today > differs greatly than how it was originally meant to be deployed. > An end user was meant to login

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread ori
Quoth Duke Normandin : > > You're kidding right? So it's a single-user/multi-tasking OS? no, but it's hard for two people to use one mouse. therefore, when you sit in front of one machine, you own it. multiple users come in when you import resources from the network. --

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread vic . thacker
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021, at 03:03, Duke Normandin wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:56:19 -0500 > "Frank D. Engel, Jr." wrote: > >> Partially to answer an earlier question and partially to >> emphasize just how different Plan 9 is: you "log out" by >> rebooting. > > You're kidding right? So it's a sin

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:11:38 -0800 Eli Cohen wrote: > yes, but it also has very good networking capabilities networking is good! +1 -- Duke ** Text only please. Bottom post is best for me ** -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9f

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
> So it's a single-user/multi-tasking OS? No. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T5888591114a7cf34-M205f07f01cf21f4b8604b990 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Eli Cohen
yes, but it also has very good networking capabilities On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 10:05 AM Duke Normandin wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:56:19 -0500 > "Frank D. Engel, Jr." wrote: > > > Partially to answer an earlier question and partially to > > emphasize just how different Plan 9 is: you "log

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:56:19 -0500 "Frank D. Engel, Jr." wrote: > Partially to answer an earlier question and partially to > emphasize just how different Plan 9 is: you "log out" by > rebooting. You're kidding right? So it's a single-user/multi-tasking OS? -- Duke ** Text only please. Bottom po

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
Partially to answer an earlier question and partially to emphasize just how different Plan 9 is: you "log out" by rebooting. On 12/28/21 12:35 PM, Duke Normandin wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:28:52 -0800 Eli Cohen wrote: if you're not accustomed to plan 9 Worst than that! I don't know squa

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:28:52 -0800 Eli Cohen wrote: > if you're not accustomed to plan 9 Worst than that! I don't know squat about it. Just manage to install it 10 minutes ago. I know Unix though and that's where I'm getting hung up. -- Duke ** Text only please. Bottom post is best for me ** -

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:23:49 -0500 o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > Quoth Duke Normandin : > > log in as user:adm > > expanding that a bit: log in as a > user in the 'adm' group. OK - I'm going to take a time-out and go read about how to use this thing! I see that I'm trying to make too many analogie

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Eli Cohen
if you're not accustomed to plan 9 I want to be the first to reiterate to be very careful with the mount command. on plan 9 mount mounts 9p servers, not disks. mounting a disk file will write 9p to the file (the disk) that's a common mistake that people have made tools to recover from, but it can

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread ori
Quoth Duke Normandin : > log in as user:adm expanding that a bit: log in as a user in the 'adm' group. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T5888591114a7cf34-M62486ebc95664ec765187810 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread hiro
so check if your user glenda is part of the group that has write permissions to /adm/timezone/local On 12/28/21, Duke Normandin wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:59:26 +0100 > hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> adm? /adm is a folder, i don't see any reference where it's being >> used as hostowner.

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:59:26 +0100 hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > adm? /adm is a folder, i don't see any reference where it's being > used as hostowner... > maybe you wanted to use "glenda" which is default hostowner. The docs I'm reading say that to setup the correct timezone: log in as user:a

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread hiro
adm? /adm is a folder, i don't see any reference where it's being used as hostowner... maybe you wanted to use "glenda" which is default hostowner. On 12/28/21, Duke Normandin wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:48:11 +0100 > Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote: > >> Just follow the usual installatio

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
It's glenda, not adm. adm is a group. Please, read the documentation, there is plenty. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T5888591114a7cf34-M5452a7aa2244f69315d52f75 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/s

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:48:11 +0100 Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote: > Just follow the usual installation, choose sdC0 as the media. > 9front has its own bootloader which installs in mbr if you chose > so. Grub can "chainload" (that's the word to search on the > internet or docs for) that too i

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread hiro
it's weird, it should have shown /dev/sdD0/data 9660 On 12/28/21, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > Quoth Duke Normandin : >> On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:31:26 +0100 >> Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote: >> >> > Awesome. Have fun! >> >> I sure will! Thx a bunch. Before you move on to better things, can

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread ori
Quoth Duke Normandin : > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:31:26 +0100 > Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote: > > > Awesome. Have fun! > > I sure will! Thx a bunch. Before you move on to better things, can > you explain how I get Plan9 onto /dev/sdC0 please. http://fqa.9front.org/fqa4.html#4.3.5

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
Just follow the usual installation, choose sdC0 as the media. 9front has its own bootloader which installs in mbr if you chose so. Grub can "chainload" (that's the word to search on the internet or docs for) that too in case you want to continue booting through grub. --

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:31:26 +0100 Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote: > Awesome. Have fun! I sure will! Thx a bunch. Before you move on to better things, can you explain how I get Plan9 onto /dev/sdC0 please. I've got antiX Linux on /dev/sdC1 which I want to keep. Got GRUB2 bootmanager install

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
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Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:01:56 +0100 Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote: > Which ISO did you use? Hold the phone! Stop the presses! I'm in! Joy!! Accepted the defaults once again after doing a Ctrl-D and BOOM! I've got a term% window I've got a "cirno" window. ;-D -- Duke ** Text only please.

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
My concern is that it does not show /dev/sdD0/data as 9660 when listing possible choices to boot from, unless ofc you didn't copy-paste(?) the full output precisely. Could be that the ISO wasn't burned correctly? I'm not exactly sure. The /386/init is definitely there on the ISO which boots fine fo

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:01:56 +0100 Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote: > Which ISO did you use? 9front-8593.acc504c319a4b4188479cfa602e40cb6851c0528.386.iso -- Duke ** Text only please. Bottom post is best for me ** -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9f

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 16:54:07 +0100 Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote: > > Not bad!! Got to keep going though! LOL What now? Reading the > > Plan9 install docs. Is 9front install docs different? TIA > > Which one of the cd/dvd has 9front in? It's in the Yamaha CD drive. > Can you type "!rc" (

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
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Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 16:50:28 +0100 hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > not sure what's wrong with that cd drive, but as you have the > kernel loaded, you could also put the iso on a flash drive or so > and use that for root. Isn't "/386/init does not exist" a clue? Why does it not exist I'm wonderi

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
> Not bad!! Got to keep going though! LOL What now? Reading the Plan9 > install docs. Is 9front install docs different? TIA Which one of the cd/dvd has 9front in? Can you type "!rc" (it will drop you into a shell) and do "ls /dev/sd*/" there? See if there are any plan 9 partitions. Shell can be ex

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread hiro
not sure what's wrong with that cd drive, but as you have the kernel loaded, you could also put the iso on a flash drive or so and use that for root. On 12/28/21, Duke Normandin wrote: > @hiro, @Sigrid, @vic > > Thanks everybody for the tips! Much obliged. > DLed Sigrid's original suggestion. No

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Duke Normandin
@hiro, @Sigrid, @vic Thanks everybody for the tips! Much obliged. DLed Sigrid's original suggestion. Now - Plan9 boots up to here: [boot-msg] /dev/sdC0: ST3802110A /dev/sdC0/data /dev/sdC1: Maxtor 6Y080L0 /dev/sdC1/data /dev/sdC1/linux /dev/sdC1/linux1 /dev/sdD0: YAMAHA CRW2200E /dev/sdD0/data /d

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
> might work too. If you consider autopsy of old and unsupported software full of bugs "fun" and not a complete waste of time, sure. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Taeb81f6ee55079e5-M7bf548f2ee3ac17333f27398 Delivery opt

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread hiro
did you try 9front? Duke wrote: > Boot process halts almost from the start at message: > > Verifying DMI Pool Data > Boot from CD: PBSR...EI > > Then nothing! Keyboard not hung. Press any key and it reboots. > > This is on an amd athlon xp 2000+ / 1G RAM / 2nd Master = CD-RW, ATA 33