From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Sorry, i'm a novice Message-ID: <20030507024814.GA17269@thefrayedknot.armory.com> References: <20030506205237.76067.qmail@web10302.mail.yahoo.com> <02a801c3141f$8ff27880$3f00a8c0@MERCURY> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <02a801c3141f$8ff27880$3f00a8c0@MERCURY> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 19:48:14 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a07621bc-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 One other thing I do a lot is use the drawterm program. I dont even know if its supported anymore, and its not a real plan9 terminal, but you can connect to plan9 cpu server and play around a bit, its basically like a terminal you ran 'cpu' in then ran rio. My network has finally gotten setup (ie yesterday) to the point that im mostly comfortable giving out free accounts just for fun. So if you want to go that route, anyone is certainly welcome to an account. On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:33:48AM +1200, Andrew Simmons wrote: > I'm just a dabbler rather than a serious user, but I found running under > VMWare a very painless way of getting familiar with the system without going > through the installation troubles that some people have. Having played > around for a while, I took the plunge and installed on a real machine - the > instructions on the Wiki are straightforward to follow, and I was lucky > enough to have just about no problems except a slight hiccup configuring the > screen resolution. (As a bonus, the installation found a 1GB partition I > never knew I had. Thanks guys.) >