Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom

2013-10-09 Thread Terry Wendt
I have VirtualBox 4.2.6_OSE r82870. I assume the OSE is OpenSuSE Edition. I think I can get some help installing an older version(4.1.24) on the OpenSuse forums. Thanks all. Terry. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:02:32 PDT Deepak Chawla wrote: > > >

Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom

2013-10-09 Thread Terry Wendt
I read in the plan9 google groups archive that plan9-20120703.iso was known to work with vbox... I thought at the time I had the right version of vbox, but the minor version number may have been different. I also wasn't aware that qemu could work with out the support from the proc. Is that versi

Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom

2013-10-09 Thread Terry Wendt
I've never been able to get plan9, 9atom, or 9front to install under virtualbox. I've had to install plan9 on a dual-boot machine, which sucks. I can't use qemu or the linux kvm with my proc, it doesn't do virtualization. I'd really like to get one of the above to work with virtualbox. Just my

[9fans] Newbie questions

2013-09-17 Thread Terry Wendt
After installing plan9 I managed to delete the plan9.ini file. I also made a mistake while installing, I chose to let plan9 have all the free space remaining - about 25Gig. This machine has winxp on the first partition and I'd like to install grub2 as a boot loader to choose between winxp, plan9,

[9fans] Closed nix development is an insult

2013-09-06 Thread Terry Wendt
Ok, I am "The Official Village Idiot", but I always assumed that if you wanted a piece of software you could write it yourself? Or at least learn how to contribute to writing it? Or maybe find several tools to pipe together and script a little and maybe get what you needed done done? Of course

Re: [9fans] How useful is a scroll wheel?

2013-07-02 Thread Terry Wendt
My vote would be for the scroll wheel. I don't like to reach for the mouse if I don't have to, but when you're already using the mouse the scroll wheel is extremely handy. Also, just because the mouse has a scroll wheel it doesn't mean you have to use it. And of course the wheel doubles as a mid

[9fans] Install Advice Requested.

2013-06-30 Thread Terry Wendt
tlaronde - Thank you for the abstract you sent. It sent me to the manual pages, which is almost always a good thing. In the prep(8) online manual page, I found the following listed as a bug: "If prep –p doesn't find a Plan 9 partition table, it will emit commands to delete all extant partitions.

Re: [9fans] Install Advice requested

2013-06-29 Thread Terry Wendt
I'm a glutton for pain. First, it wasn't the plan9.iso, but the 9athom.iso. I think the original problem occured by exiting(Ctrl+Alt+Del) before the install was done. I guess I should have used Ctrl-d to stop the process I was in. Anyway, after exiting the install program and rebooting I discov

[9fans] Install Advice requested

2013-06-29 Thread Terry Wendt
I created a partition and started the plan9 install using plan9.iso. It was an incomplete install, and I had some other problems from which I've recovered. 8^) I created a directory on the plan9 partition named iso, then copied plan9.iso to that dir. Can anyone provide some guidance regarding com

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image cont.

2013-06-29 Thread Terry Wendt
yeah... pressed enter pressed lots of keys... 9front will have to wait for now, but thanks for the advice. Terry. On 6/28/13, s...@9front.org wrote: >> 9front.iso - never gave me an option to run from cd or install, it >> just started launching itself. >> Several screens of info and it stop on

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image cont.

2013-06-29 Thread Terry Wendt
When I tried booting 9front, it didn't give me any options until it got to the bootargs line, where it froze. I'll get back to 9front later. I am interested, but my system is completly borked right now. When I had tried the vanilla plan9.iso, I was trying the "boot from cd" option, and it was free

[9fans] plan9 iso image cont.

2013-06-28 Thread Terry Wendt
> Anyway, next steps? > I would recommend either a virtual machine like Bakul says or, if possible > change the CD drive. You could try also booting from USB, I don't know > if there are any usb images laying around... I'm starting to think maybe the dvd drive is buggy. I'll probably swap the cd

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image cont.

2013-06-28 Thread Terry Wendt
I'm using GRUB2, and I have an empty primary partition. I'm thinking about using grub to install it. It's worth a shot! Thanks, Terry. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:26:51 CDT Terry Wendt > wrote: >> K3b actually sai

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image cont.

2013-06-28 Thread Terry Wendt
I did that, nothing. I thought I might need to enter something, so I browsed the plan9 install instructions, then tried to enter something but no characters echoed. Terry. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Matthew Veety wrote: > >> Anyway, next steps? >> Terry. >> > > Hit enter at the 9front boo

[9fans] plan9 iso image cont.

2013-06-28 Thread Terry Wendt
K3b actually said 721.7 GB. As in Gigabytes. So, I've downloaded, burned, and tried to install the following iso images: 9front-2688.28a9914426a3.iso (I used Brasero to burn the cd, no size complaints) +9atom.iso 9atom.iso 9atom.nboot.iso plan9.iso None actually booted, but some got farther then

Re: [9fans] Tried 9atom.nboot.iso.bz2

2013-06-28 Thread Terry Wendt
I did, just wanted to make sure... I'm also writing the discs using DAO. Correct? I'm more or less following the same procedure I would for a linux distro. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:48 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Foolish newbie question: I am supposed to unzip the image before >> burning it, ri

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image

2013-06-28 Thread Terry Wendt
If its any help, when I select 9atom.nboot.iso within K3b to burn to disc, it reports the filesize as 360.9 MB but the declared volume size as 721.7 GB. Interesting. Terry. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:19 PM, erik quanstrom > wrote:

[9fans] Tried 9atom.nboot.iso.bz2

2013-06-28 Thread Terry Wendt
This was a fail to boot. It actually gets to: Booting from CD: ... then reboots the pc goes through BIOS screen Booting from CD: ... over and over. Next I'll try the 9atom.iso.bz2 Foolish newbie question: I am supposed to unzip the image before burning it, right? Just making sure I'm not doing

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image

2013-06-28 Thread Terry Wendt
The file has an actual size on the file system, but the files header tells the burning app that it has a different size. This is my guess only... Terry. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: > On Jun 28, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Terry Wendt wrote: > >> I've downloa

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image

2013-06-28 Thread Terry Wendt
Thank you for your response erik. The machine I'm trying to boot this on is an "old" dell inspiron 530. Processor - Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60 GHz Ram - 1 GB I just thought of something... The HD is on the primary cable, and a DVD and CD are on the secondary. The DVD drive is the devic

[9fans] plan9 iso image

2013-06-28 Thread Terry Wendt
I've downloaded the plan9.iso image twice from http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html Once about two weeks ago, once today. Both times I extracted the plan9.iso.bz2 file to plan9.iso. Both times I burned the image to a cd, and both times the program(k3b) told me the image wasn't the same