Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-28 Thread sirjofri
25.07.2024 23:18:46 hiro <23h...@gmail.com>: > as much as we all hate xml, i see no reason not to ship it as long as > it works well and there's something generally useful that depends on > it. > the same happened with other questionable legacy technology before, > e.g. TCP and http, so there's som

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-26 Thread sirjofri
26.07.2024 03:50:56 Ben Huntsman : > Is 9atom still updated in any way, shape, or form, or are you working off > that really old version from like 10 years ago?  I'm working with this code currently: https://github.com/Plan9-Archive/9atom/tree/master/sys/src/libxml

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-26 Thread Steve Simon
I believe 9atom was a private project of Erik Quanstrom‘s - separate to his day job at Coraid, though id did include some little bits of coraid’s technology.I don’t believe it has been updated since everything changed there - the story here for those who have not seen it:How Silicon Valley can kill

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread ori
Quoth Ben Huntsman : > Is 9atom still updated in any way, shape, or form, or are you working off > that really old version from like 10 years ago? > > I really liked 9atom but it doesn’t seem to like modern hardware, and I > always had a hard time getting it to run under VMware… > > Thank

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread Ben Huntsman
Is 9atom still updated in any way, shape, or form, or are you working off that really old version from like 10 years ago? I really liked 9atom but it doesn’t seem to like modern hardware, and I always had a hard time getting it to run under VMware… Thanks! -

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread hiro
as much as we all hate xml, i see no reason not to ship it as long as it works well and there's something generally useful that depends on it. the same happened with other questionable legacy technology before, e.g. TCP and http, so there's some precedence. never forget that the majority of plan9 c

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread Steve Simon
yes, sorry 9atom not 9front. i am happy for you to use the same license :-) -Steve > On 25 Jul 2024, at 9:26 pm, sirjofri wrote: > > Hi, > > 25.07.2024 20:12:03 Steve simon : >> I am fairly sure the libxml in 9front was from me. > > I guess you mean 9atom since 9front has no libxml? > >>

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread sirjofri
Hi, 25.07.2024 20:12:03 Steve simon : > I am fairly sure the libxml in 9front was from me. I guess you mean 9atom since 9front has no libxml? > My last code is at http://www.quintile.net/magic/webls?dir=/quintile.net > > I packaged them as libxml.tbz and xml.cmds.tbz > It contains an (optional)

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread Steve Simon
sorry, i meantIndex of /quintile.net/pkgquintile.net-SteveOn 25 Jul 2024, at 7:11 pm, Steve simon wrote:I am fairly sure the libxml in 9front was from me.My last code is at http://www.quintile.net/magic/webls?dir=/quintile.netI packaged them as libxml.tbz and xml.cmds.tbzIt contains an (optional)

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread Steve simon
I am fairly sure the libxml in 9front was from me. My last code is at http://www.quintile.net/magic/webls?dir=/quintile.net I packaged them as libxml.tbz and xml.cmds.tbz It contains an (optional) string heap as I wrote this code for 16bit embedded systems with limited memory. There is also m

[9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread sirjofri
Hello everyone, in the last few weeks I was working on making 9atom's libxml available as a separate bundle for easy installation. I also included xb (a beautifier) into the same package. My goal was to build an xslt processor. However, a few features were completely missing in libxml, most imp

[9fans] 9atom - odd error during build phase

2016-10-29 Thread James A. Robinson
Hi folks, I've put together the parts for the CPU unit that I want to use as a fileserver. I haven't gotten the parts for the actual disk array yet, but the machine got a local SSD in it and I figured that would be good enough to at least install a standalone system on. This is on a Supermicro X

[9fans] 9atom, S-ATA hard disk not detected

2015-11-25 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, when trying to install 9atom I get to to the point where I should presumably say that the installation should go to the hard disc, but the only option I see is the usb flash device from which I have run the installation itself. I do not see any sd... under /dev. It's a Samsung HD103Si S-AT

Re: [9fans] 9atom boot, reset when rio starts

2015-11-18 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 18 November 2015 at 16:28, wrote: > it works fine for me on machine 3. Of course, I myself have 2 other machines where it runs... What I meant was that when one just picks up a machine at random, one seems to regularly encounter a problem, regardless if one uses 9atom or 9front (although 9ato

Re: [9fans] 9atom boot, reset when rio starts

2015-11-18 Thread cinap_lenrek
it works fine for me on machine 3. seriously, what do you expect? its pretty impossible to say whats wrong without any information on the hardware and what got printed on the screen. could be a bad driver. could be acpi issue. could be overheating. one can usually narrow it down by disabling boo

[9fans] 9atom boot, reset when rio starts

2015-11-18 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, I tried to boot plan9, in the incarnations of 9front (on machine 1) and 9atom (on machine 1 and 2) but did not succeed in either case. The furthest I got was with 9atom. On machine 1 it booted (using amd64) as far as I could already see a few rio windows, but then it suddenly went into rebo

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation report on Acer C710 Chromebook

2015-02-28 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015, at 09:50 AM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015, at 07:39 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > I see a crash elsewhere now. Tried installation 3 times again and all > > > > crashed at different places. > > > > > > > > One of them is: > > > > > > > > rc: n

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation report on Acer C710 Chromebook

2015-02-23 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015, at 07:39 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > I see a crash elsewhere now. Tried installation 3 times again and all > > > crashed at different places. > > > > > > One of them is: > > > > > > rc: note: sys: trap: fault write addr=0x7ee0 pc=0x20d790 > > > rc 9024: suicide:

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation report on Acer C710 Chromebook

2015-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> > I see a crash elsewhere now. Tried installation 3 times again and all > > crashed at different places. > > > > One of them is: > > > > rc: note: sys: trap: fault write addr=0x7ee0 pc=0x20d790 > > rc 9024: suicide: sys: trap: ... > > Perhaps I should add that I tried the 386 install

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation report on Acer C710 Chromebook

2015-02-22 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015, at 11:22 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > On Sat Feb 14 09:40:55 PST 2015, quans...@quanstro.net wrote: > > > > This morning, I decided to install 9atom. The installation went quite > > > > well but towards th

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation report on Acer C710 Chromebook

2015-02-14 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015, at 11:22 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sat Feb 14 09:40:55 PST 2015, quans...@quanstro.net wrote: > > > This morning, I decided to install 9atom. The installation went quite > > > well but towards the end, while it is compiling amd64 executables, I got > > > a panic and a fre

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation report on Acer C710 Chromebook

2015-02-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Feb 14 09:40:55 PST 2015, quans...@quanstro.net wrote: > > This morning, I decided to install 9atom. The installation went quite > > well but towards the end, while it is compiling amd64 executables, I got > > a panic and a freeze. > > > > panic: cpu0: cclose 0xf01c45f8 > > dumpstac

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation report on Acer C710 Chromebook

2015-02-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> This morning, I decided to install 9atom. The installation went quite > well but towards the end, while it is compiling amd64 executables, I got > a panic and a freeze. > > panic: cpu0: cclose 0xf01c45f8 > dumpstack: disabled > cpu0: exiting > cpu1: exiting well, that's not good. i wil

[9fans] 9atom installation report on Acer C710 Chromebook

2015-02-13 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Hi, I have an Acer C710 Chromebook () with chromeos bootloader replaced with seabios+coreboot from John Lewis (). The machine used to w

Re: [9fans] 9atom back up!

2015-02-05 Thread lucio
> Our pleasure. We are still 100% dedicated to Plan 9. Not that anyone could doubt it, but it is reassuring to hear it from the horse's mouth :-) Lucio.

Re: [9fans] 9atom back up!

2015-02-05 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Viva Plan 9! On Thu Feb 05 2015 at 8:11:22 AM Brantley Coile wrote: > Our pleasure. We are still 100% dedicated to Plan 9. > > Brantley Coile > > On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:02 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > sorry for the delay. > > > > robert ball and brantley coile replaced > > the dead motherboa

Re: [9fans] 9atom back up!

2015-02-05 Thread Brantley Coile
Our pleasure. We are still 100% dedicated to Plan 9. Brantley Coile On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:02 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > sorry for the delay. > > robert ball and brantley coile replaced > the dead motherboard for me, in my decidely non virtual > environment. many thanks to them for their hel

[9fans] 9atom back up!

2015-02-05 Thread erik quanstrom
sorry for the delay. robert ball and brantley coile replaced the dead motherboard for me, in my decidely non virtual environment. many thanks to them for their help. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9atom boot problem

2015-01-30 Thread erik quanstrom
> Well, I left the machine on its own and after slightly > less than an hour it offered a prompt with some more info, > I believe, so now it might be clearer to say what is wrong. > See prompt.png. > that's expected behavior /sys/lib/newuser will fix that. the lengthy init was all venti. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9atom boot problem

2015-01-29 Thread Pavel Klinkovský
> > If I choose to install plan9, I get a result shown in the attached > a.png (and it does not proceed any further). > > If I choose to just boot (not install), it gets stuck after > init: starting /bin/rc > and shows the same 'spurious interrupt 39'. > Try to play with AHCI settings in BIOS. IIR

Re: [9fans] 9atom boot problem

2015-01-29 Thread erik quanstrom
> I tried 9atom from 2014-06-27, but it doesn't (now I add 'always'; sometimes > it does get through) boot. > > If I choose to install plan9, I get a result shown in the attached > a.png (and it does not proceed any further). > > If I choose to just boot (not install), it gets stuck after > init:

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Jan 27 07:00:23 PST 2015, 0in...@gmail.com wrote: > > I wonder what the difference is between > > 9atom.iso.bz2 > > and > > +9atom.iso.bz2 > > I think one is more recent than the other. the + one is experimental. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
EC2, EC2! :) On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:06 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Mon Jan 26 23:03:29 PST 2015, rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 24 January 2015 at 20:48, erik quanstrom > wrote: > > > looks like a power even took out the motherboard. hopefully i can find > > > some

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread David du Colombier
> but the most recent (nonzero) one is then more then half a year old, > > 9atom-2014-07-08 > > What is the logic about when a image is taken? The image is automatically downloaded every day, then it is deleted if the content is identical to the last image. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 27 January 2015 at 16:03, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I wonder what the difference is between >> 9atom.iso.bz2 >> and >> +9atom.iso.bz2 > > I think one is more recent than the other. the one with + seems to be always (when it exists) smaller by about 2 MB ... Ruda

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 27 January 2015 at 16:41, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am starting to feel like an idiot again. >> What I can find there seems to have 0 bytes. >> (see the screenshot) >> What am I doing wrong? > > These are the images from today, but the ftp.9atom.org > server is currently

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread David du Colombier
> I am starting to feel like an idiot again. > What I can find there seems to have 0 bytes. > (see the screenshot) > What am I doing wrong? These are the images from today, but the ftp.9atom.org server is currently down. You have to look in an older directory. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hi David, >> A mirror of the 9atom CD image is available on: >> >> http://mirror.9grid.fr/ I am starting to feel like an idiot again. What I can find there seems to have 0 bytes. (see the screenshot) What am I doing wrong? Thanks Ruda

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread David du Colombier
> I wonder what the difference is between > 9atom.iso.bz2 > and > +9atom.iso.bz2 I think one is more recent than the other. > And what is kernel.mkfs.bz2? This is a kfs archive of /sys/src/9. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread Rudolf Sykora
>> http://mirror.9grid.fr/ I wonder what the difference is between 9atom.iso.bz2 and +9atom.iso.bz2 And what is kernel.mkfs.bz2? Thanks Ruda On 27 January 2015 at 15:46, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hi David, Erik, > > On 27 January 2015 at 15:22, erik quanstrom wrote: >> On Tue Jan 27 06:13:39 PST

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hi David, Erik, On 27 January 2015 at 15:22, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Tue Jan 27 06:13:39 PST 2015, 0in...@gmail.com wrote: >> A mirror of the 9atom CD image is available on: >> >> http://mirror.9grid.fr/ good. So I may download and use. :) > the usb image is the primary distribution media t

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread David du Colombier
> the usb image is the primary distribution media these days. The USB image is also available. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Jan 27 06:13:39 PST 2015, 0in...@gmail.com wrote: > A mirror of the 9atom CD image is available on: > > http://mirror.9grid.fr/ the usb image is the primary distribution media these days. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread David du Colombier
A mirror of the 9atom CD image is available on: http://mirror.9grid.fr/ -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-27 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jan 26 23:03:29 PST 2015, rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > On 24 January 2015 at 20:48, erik quanstrom wrote: > > looks like a power even took out the motherboard. hopefully i can find > > some parts early next week. > > > > - erik > > does that mean I can't download 9atom now

Re: [9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-26 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, On 24 January 2015 at 20:48, erik quanstrom wrote: > looks like a power even took out the motherboard. hopefully i can find > some parts early next week. > > - erik does that mean I can't download 9atom now? (the web page www.9atom.org is up, but going to 386 iso [ftp.9atom.org] doesn't

[9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-24 Thread erik quanstrom
looks like a power even took out the motherboard. hopefully i can find some parts early next week. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9atom bootup error

2014-12-01 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014, at 07:37 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Mon Dec 1 06:01:58 PST 2014, r...@rkrishnan.org wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did a fresh install of 9atom today on a spare hard disk connected to > > my AMD64 machine. The installation went fine. On bootup, I get this > > error message on a

Re: [9fans] 9atom bootup error

2014-12-01 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Dec 1 06:01:58 PST 2014, r...@rkrishnan.org wrote: > Hi, > > I did a fresh install of 9atom today on a spare hard disk connected to > my AMD64 machine. The installation went fine. On bootup, I get this > error message on a black window (mouse is active): > > lib/profile: rc: /rc/lib/rcmai

[9fans] 9atom bootup error

2014-12-01 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Hi, I did a fresh install of 9atom today on a spare hard disk connected to my AMD64 machine. The installation went fine. On bootup, I get this error message on a black window (mouse is active): lib/profile: rc: /rc/lib/rcmain:23 .: can't open: '/bin/lib' directory entry not found init: rc exit st

Re: [9fans] 9atom install error

2014-06-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:57 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> I noticed this on a fresh install from the usbinstamd64.bz2 downloaded >> today. I am typing the error. The error is while it is compiling the >> amd64 programs.. >> >> [...] >> mk syscall >> sed '/#define... >> >> 6c -I/sys/src/libc/9

Re: [9fans] 9atom install error

2014-06-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> I noticed this on a fresh install from the usbinstamd64.bz2 downloaded > today. I am typing the error. The error is while it is compiling the > amd64 programs.. > > [...] > mk syscall > sed '/#define... > > 6c -I/sys/src/libc/9syscall -FTVw syscall.c > tab.h:52 syscall.c:34 name not declare

[9fans] 9atom install error

2014-06-25 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Erik, I noticed this on a fresh install from the usbinstamd64.bz2 downloaded today. I am typing the error. The error is while it is compiling the amd64 programs.. [...] mk syscall sed '/#define... 6c -I/sys/src/libc/9syscall -FTVw syscall.c tab.h:52 syscall.c:34 name not declared: _nsec mk:

[9fans] 9atom ISO images?

2014-04-25 Thread arnold
Hi. What is the status of the 9atom ISO images? I have a laptop that I think is too old to boot from USB that perhaps I can put Plan 9 on... Thanks, Arnold

Re: [9fans] 9atom ISO images?

2014-04-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> What is the status of the 9atom ISO images? > > I have a laptop that I think is too old to boot from USB that perhaps > I can put Plan 9 on... you can try. the technique i used to help install on a mac pro, which will also not boot from usb except efi, is to put the usb image on disk, and edit

Re: [9fans] 9atom beta installer (with venti+fossil install)

2014-04-04 Thread Erik Quanstrom
it now also boots on page machines. I don't think many pre page machines boot from USB. let me know if that's wrong. - erik lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: >> hget http://ftp.9atom.org/other/+usbinstamd64.bz2 > >Does it only cover the 64-bit platform? > >++L > > > >

Re: [9fans] 9atom beta installer (with venti+fossil install)

2014-04-04 Thread lucio
> hget http://ftp.9atom.org/other/+usbinstamd64.bz2 Does it only cover the 64-bit platform? ++L

[9fans] 9atom beta installer (with venti+fossil install)

2014-04-04 Thread erik quanstrom
a new version of the 9atom installer is available that will install to either kfs or fossil+venti, and it should fix all of the outstanding bugs in the installer. (i.e. installing your own user not working, etc.) it's still got sharp edges, and i'm the only one to have installed it, so it's in th

Re: [9fans] 9atom usb image

2014-03-27 Thread Matthew Bonner
On 28 March 2014 07:49, David Hoskin wrote: > Here's a procedure that worked for me. > > - download new usbinstamd64.bz2 from 9atom.org > - boot it up, run through the installer > - answer no to ``build full amd64 set?'' > - answer no to ``halt system?'' > - mount new disk's 9fat and copy over /3

Re: [9fans] 9atom usb image

2014-03-27 Thread Adriano Verardo
erik quanstrom ha scritto: thanks, i'll look into this. - erik As i wrote in a previous mail, I tried this procedure: (pcbox is a working Atom/fossil, using the key to install on dell1). download usbinstamd64.bz2, load the usb key pcbox% usbsd pcbox% disk/kfs -f /dev/sdu0/fs pcbox% mount /sr

Re: [9fans] 9atom usb image

2014-03-27 Thread David Hoskin
> there is something odd here. I agree. > where do the 386 executables come from? they're not on the usb key. It has some in /386/bin. > it's also hard to explain that the usb key 64-bit kernel works just fine, but doesn't (i happen to know) appear to boot from your hard drive. The usb key's

Re: [9fans] 9atom usb image

2014-03-27 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Mar 27 16:50:18 EDT 2014, r...@davidrhoskin.com wrote: > Here's a procedure that worked for me. > > - download new usbinstamd64.bz2 from 9atom.org > - boot it up, run through the installer > - answer no to ``build full amd64 set?'' > - answer no to ``halt system?'' > - mount new disk's 9fat

Re: [9fans] 9atom usb image

2014-03-27 Thread David Hoskin
Here's a procedure that worked for me. - download new usbinstamd64.bz2 from 9atom.org - boot it up, run through the installer - answer no to ``build full amd64 set?'' - answer no to ``halt system?'' - mount new disk's 9fat and copy over /386/9paed - edit plan9.ini to boot 9paed This will boot up

Re: [9fans] 9atom usb image

2014-03-26 Thread erik quanstrom
thanks, i'll look into this. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9atom usb image

2014-03-26 Thread Adriano Verardo
erik quanstrom ha scritto: i think it's time to get rid of the +usbinstamd64.bz image. the process seems to work pretty well. updates to the image will be here starting immediately: http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2 - erik This image behaves as follows: ... 8._cp 8.unicod

[9fans] 9atom usb image

2014-03-26 Thread erik quanstrom
i think it's time to get rid of the +usbinstamd64.bz image. the process seems to work pretty well. updates to the image will be here starting immediately: http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2 - erik

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-03-01 Thread Shane Morris
No, I'd gone through the install process for the second image, and I still got the "No bootfile" error even though I had reinstalled using the updated image. Sorry for not being clear enough. On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:41 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sat Mar 1 19:13:08 EST 2014, edgecombe...@g

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-03-01 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Mar 1 19:13:08 EST 2014, edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: > Erik, I tried the second image in the list you gave me, same error - "No > bootfile." > > I think I might try wiping the disk completely with a Linux installer, then > try the first image. a number of bioses have an f10 boot overri

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-03-01 Thread Shane Morris
Erik, I tried the second image in the list you gave me, same error - "No bootfile." I think I might try wiping the disk completely with a Linux installer, then try the first image. On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Erik Quanstrom wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by new disks. > > - erik > > >

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-03-01 Thread Erik Quanstrom
I'm not sure what you mean by new disks. - erik Adriano Verardo wrote: >Does thi iso deal with new disks ? >>> I've written the uncompressed file to a flash stick, and tried booting my >>> dual core Pentium - no dice. Won't even recognise theres a flash stick >>> plugged in with a disk image w

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-03-01 Thread Adriano Verardo
Does thi iso deal with new disks ? I've written the uncompressed file to a flash stick, and tried booting my dual core Pentium - no dice. Won't even recognise theres a flash stick plugged in with a disk image written to it. Likewise, my Mac said it wasn't able to read the flash stick once I had d

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-03-01 Thread erik quanstrom
> I've written the uncompressed file to a flash stick, and tried booting my > dual core Pentium - no dice. Won't even recognise theres a flash stick > plugged in with a disk image written to it. Likewise, my Mac said it wasn't > able to read the flash stick once I had done the "dd" command. > > Is

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-03-01 Thread Shane Morris
Erik, I've written the uncompressed file to a flash stick, and tried booting my dual core Pentium - no dice. Won't even recognise theres a flash stick plugged in with a disk image written to it. Likewise, my Mac said it wasn't able to read the flash stick once I had done the "dd" command. Is ther

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-02-27 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 27 16:07:12 EST 2014, edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: > Quick question Erik - is it ok to just "dd" that uncompressed file to a > flash stick on my Macbook? unless there's something magic about mac flash sticks, i do the same thing to test. except with plan 9. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-02-27 Thread Shane Morris
Quick question Erik - is it ok to just "dd" that uncompressed file to a flash stick on my Macbook? Many thanks! On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Shane Morris wrote: > Thanks Erik, I'll try that tonight, let you know how it goes. > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:52 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > >>

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-02-27 Thread Shane Morris
Thanks Erik, I'll try that tonight, let you know how it goes. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:52 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Thu Feb 27 15:35:31 EST 2014, edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Hello 9fans, > > > > Tried installing 9atom on a dual core Pentium that worked with 9front, > and > > got

Re: [9fans] 9atom Boot Error

2014-02-27 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 27 15:35:31 EST 2014, edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello 9fans, > > Tried installing 9atom on a dual core Pentium that worked with 9front, and > got this error in the screenshot after I had installed. Any clues on where > I'd gone wrong would be great! looks like you used an older

[9fans] 9atom install

2014-02-27 Thread erik quanstrom
i forgot to mention the location! http://ftp.9atom.org/other/+usbinstamd64.bz2 i'd like to hear this is working for people, then i'll move it to the standard location. http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2 newftp.9atom.org has been dropped from dns. that was a transitio

[9fans] 9atom install

2014-02-26 Thread erik quanstrom
i have made a number of small improvements to the 9atom install. - amd64: ohci machines should no longer crash - amd64: fix crash with some very slow machines in the timer interrupt. - 386/pae: installer should now work (but it will install amd64) - dhcp timeout should be 32s not 300s. still think

Re: [9fans] 9Atom download fails

2014-02-21 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Feb 21 08:27:04 EST 2014, adriano.vera...@mail.com wrote: > I'm trying to download http://newftp.9atom.org/other/9atom.iso.bz2 but the > server connection fails. > > Wrong address or server maintenance ? i'm sorry about that. there where two issues 1. newftp.9atom.org -> ftp.9atom.org

[9fans] 9Atom download fails

2014-02-21 Thread Adriano Verardo
I'm trying to download http://newftp.9atom.org/other/9atom.iso.bz2 but the server connection fails. Wrong address or server maintenance ? adriano

[9fans] 9atom usb install improvements

2013-12-27 Thread erik quanstrom
i've fixed a few typos and bugs and knocked off a few sharp edges in the 9atom usb install process which is more fully described here http://9fans.net/archive/2013/10/151 the build process still not always smooth due to /sys/src/cmd/runetype occasionally failing to downloading the unicode

Re: [9fans] 9Atom boot issue

2013-12-21 Thread erik quanstrom
> Greetings, > > I have an I3, HP laptop that boots fine under 9Front but has a problem > booting 9Atom. The message I am getting is: > > ehci 0xe0001c00: io 0xf004e400 qh 0xf005a300 timed out (no intr?) > > cpu0: spurious interrupt 39, last 5 > > I am merely reporting this in case anyone is i

[9fans] 9Atom boot issue

2013-12-21 Thread Blake McBride
Greetings, I have an I3, HP laptop that boots fine under 9Front but has a problem booting 9Atom. The message I am getting is: ehci 0xe0001c00: io 0xf004e400 qh 0xf005a300 timed out (no intr?) cpu0: spurious interrupt 39, last 5 I am merely reporting this in case anyone is interested in the fee

[9fans] 9atom mounting

2013-12-06 Thread erik quanstrom
i've noticed that a few folks have been having trouble with 9atom sources. the attach point for the atom sources is not the empty string, it's atom. the empty string will mount the internal file system. here's a snippet from my 9fs where nflag=-n. case atom srv $nflag -q tcp!atom.9atom.or

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-18 Thread Daode
erik quanstrom wrote: |if you have plan 9, or 9p working (say on linux or osx), then you can Hello! I now have a running 9atom system!! :-)) |"9fs 9atom". for plan 9 the incantation would be I've spend the last two weeks adding command line editing to the mailer i maintain, and am in the pr

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-17 Thread erik quanstrom
> And since neither i do have a running 9atom nor are there 9atom > sources available for non-9atom runners (i think) i just don't > know yet how it feels or which awk is running and wether it has > the bug or not. _Soy_. > But many thanks for answering the mail. > I think this system rocks.

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files [solved]

2013-07-08 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Well, maybe later, on the Athlon (i think trying notebook is hard). But anyway i'm happy to have a running 9atom now. (The ~28 percent CPU usage of VM i talked about is the idle load also when installed, btw. And awk doesn't support hex. Ciao.) On 8 July 2013 22:06, Matthew Veety wrote: > On J

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files [solved]

2013-07-08 Thread Matthew Veety
On Jul 8, 2013, at 15:55, Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso wrote: > Yapadapad! > While biking i became enlightened. > Just disabled the network and it boots (VirtualBox 4.2.16, OS X). > It seems the system hangs around trying to get some IP address via > DHCP?? I don't know why it does so long (

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files [solved]

2013-07-08 Thread Daode
Yapadapad! While biking i became enlightened. Just disabled the network and it boots (VirtualBox 4.2.16, OS X). It seems the system hangs around trying to get some IP address via DHCP?? I don't know why it does so long (minutes) and requires such a lot of CPU time (though of the VM) doing

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-08 Thread Carl Phillips
I think you need the extension pack installed...if I uninstall it from this machine I can provoke the behaviour you describe with high cpu load and hangs after starting bin/rc. The install to disk option seems less prone to failure and sometimes it boots the live CD but takes a long time doing

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> The only thing which comes to my (user-space only) attention is > `igbe: unusable PciCLS: 0, using 8 longs'. Otherwise anything > looks good to me, except that, whatever i do, we loop hanging > after `init: starting /bin/rc'. that is a detail that matters only to physical devices. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-08 Thread Daode
Carl Phillips wrote: |On 08/07/13 13:06, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote: |> Now i only fail to get it working in VirtualBox; both of 4.2.14 |> (June 21th, 86644) and 4.2.16 (86992) hang after "init: starting |> /bin/rc" with 100% CPU time ("Live CD": ~28%). I hope i find some |> time to try it

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-08 Thread Carl Phillips
On 08/07/13 13:06, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote: Now i only fail to get it working in VirtualBox; both of 4.2.14 (June 21th, 86644) and 4.2.16 (86992) hang after "init: starting /bin/rc" with 100% CPU time ("Live CD": ~28%). I hope i find some time to try it on an old but physical Athlon system

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-08 Thread Daode
erik quanstrom wrote: |> But then, unfortunately, there were quite some copy errors which |> caused the installation to fail. |> |> /n/[newfs - dist]/68020/lib/{ape,libc.a} |> /n/[newfs - dist]/alpha/lib/{ape,libc.a} |> /n/newfs/sys/src/pcpae/{archacpi,audioac97{,m},audiohd}.c |>

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> But then, unfortunately, there were quite some copy errors which > caused the installation to fail. > > /n/[newfs - dist]/68020/lib/{ape,libc.a} > /n/[newfs - dist]/alpha/lib/{ape,libc.a} > /n/newfs/sys/src/pcpae/{archacpi,audioac97{,m},audiohd}.c > (because /n/newfs/sys/src/pcpae do

[9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-06 Thread Daode
Hello, today i finally made it to one of the things i was looking forward to, installing 9atom. It was a truly smooth experience. (Some `cannot set [gu]id on xy' messages, mostly for a `bootes' user in /usr and /cron, and also for secstore{,/store,/who}.) But then, unfortunately, there were quit

Re: [9fans] 9atom patches

2013-07-03 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Jul 3 12:35:16 EDT 2013, quans...@quanstro.net wrote: > if you're interested in the details on patches applied to 9atom > > echo subscribe | mail sources-ow...@9atom.org > > cf. mlmgr(8) http://www.9atom.org/magic/man2html/1/mlmgr and should you wish to submit patch, the *experimen

[9fans] 9atom patches

2013-07-03 Thread erik quanstrom
if you're interested in the details on patches applied to 9atom echo subscribe | mail sources-ow...@9atom.org cf. mlmgr(8) http://www.9atom.org/magic/man2html/1/mlmgr - erik

[9fans] 9atom sse

2013-06-12 Thread erik quanstrom
lucho has a good point. while i still think concentrating on amd64 for new things is the right thing to do for the future, that shouldn't mean neglecting necessary maintence on the 386 kernels. 9atom now has sse support in the pae kernel. pae support goes back to the pentium pro, so i hope this

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