[9fans] Boot Plan 9 on VMWare Workstation

[9fans] Boot Plan 9 on VMWare Workstation

[fouRmi]

Can I install plan-9 on VMWare Workstation? If so, I got some problems
and it didn't run as i expected. My VMWare Station is version 5.5.1
build-19175. It stops after that "Install mbr (y, n) [no default]: "
and that i choose yes. Only ">>>" is waiting. What should i do next?

Also another question, what is the exact filesize of the CD image. I
mean the ISO file. I download it twice but got two different sizes of
image. One of them is 267 MB (280,584,192 bytes). Is it correct? Or
there may be some errors while downloading.

Thanks.
 Regards.

Re: [9fans] Boot Plan 9 on VMWare Workstation

[erik quanstrom]

> Also another question, what is the exact filesize of the CD image. I
> mean the ISO file. I download it twice but got two different sizes of
> image. One of them is 267 MB (280,584,192 bytes). Is it correct? Or
> there may be some errors while downloading.

the downloadable image is rebuilt every night and bzip2'd. if the image
were corrupted, bunzip2 should give you errors.

- erik

[9fans] Re: Boot Plan 9 on VMWare Workstation

[fouRmi]

Thanks Erik.

[9fans] Boot Plan 9 on VMWare Workstation

[fouRmi Sun]

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Hi, all

Can I install plan-9 on VMWare Workstation? If so, I got some problems and
it didn't run as i expected. My VMWare Station is version 5.5.1 build-19175.
It stops after that "Install mbr (y, n) [no default]: " and that i choose
yes. Only ">>>" is waiting. What should i do next?

Also another question, what is the exact filesize of the CD image. I mean
the ISO file. I download it twice but got two different sizes of image. One
of them is 267 MB (280,584,192 bytes). Is it correct? Or there may be some
errors while downloading.

Thanks.
 Regards.

-- 
Regards

Orlando. 孙睿

MSN: sunrui82@hotmail.com

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Re: [9fans] Boot Plan 9 on VMWare Workstation

[Sander van Dijk]

On 7/1/07, fouRmi Sun <sunrui82@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also another question, what is the exact filesize of the CD image. I mean
> the ISO file. I download it twice but got two different sizes of image. One
> of them is 267 MB (280,584,192 bytes). Is it correct? Or there may be some
> errors while downloading.

Did you download these on the same day? The cd image is built every
night from the latest sources, so if you downloaded them on different
days these different sizes are to be expected. See
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9checksums.txt for the checksums of the
image.

Greetings, Sander.

Re: [9fans] Boot Plan 9 on VMWare Workstation

[Mahmoud AlGammal]

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You can get a VMware Server image here
http://blog.gammal.org/2007/05/plan9-vmware-image.html . I think it might
also work under Workstation.

On 7/1/07, fouRmi Sun <sunrui82@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, all
>
> Can I install plan-9 on VMWare Workstation? If so, I got some problems and
> it didn't run as i expected. My VMWare Station is version 5.5.1build-19175. It stops after that "Install mbr (y, n) [no default]: " and
> that i choose yes. Only ">>>" is waiting. What should i do next?
>
> Also another question, what is the exact filesize of the CD image. I mean
> the ISO file. I download it twice but got two different sizes of image. One
> of them is 267 MB (280,584,192 bytes). Is it correct? Or there may be some
> errors while downloading.
>
> Thanks.
>  Regards.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Orlando. 孙睿
>
> MSN: sunrui82@hotmail.com
>



-- 
Mahmoud AlGammal
http://blog.gammal.org/

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Re: [9fans] Boot Plan 9 on VMWare Workstation

[Lucio De Re]

On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 17:39 +0800, fouRmi Sun wrote:
> Can I install plan-9 on VMWare Workstation? If so, I got some problems
> and
> it didn't run as i expected. My VMWare Station is version 5.5.1
> build-19175.
> It stops after that "Install mbr (y, n) [no default]: " and that i
> choose
> yes. Only ">>>" is waiting. What should i do next?
> 
You chose "yes" or you typed "yes"?  The >>> suggests you ought to type
"q" at the prompt and move on to some next step, but I cannot imagine
why that would be the case.

Also, are you sure you want to update the "mbr"?  That depends, if I
understand correctly, on the type of disk model you're using.

I have successfully installed the very latest CD-ROM image (with some
sweat) under VMware server, so it is possible.  It doesn't work
beautifully, however, it seems to drop the connection after a very short
idle period.

++L