From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 05:33:59 +0100 From: Uriel To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] First Time Plan 9 User Message-ID: <20051004043359.GA24924@server4.lensbuddy.com> References: <200510040354.j943sFhr087906@mail.cjb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510040354.j943sFhr087906@mail.cjb.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 93ab9282-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 You need to right click to open a new window. For details see rio(1) and http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Using_rio/ uriel On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:54:15PM -0600, email@thelaststop.cjb.net wrote: > Hi, > > I just started using Plan 9 and I've been having a lot of difficulty and I'm not sure why, but before I go on let me first mention that I'm running Plan 9 on the latest version of qemu on Mac OS X. > > So I installed it freshly from the plan9.iso.bz2 with all the default options. When I first boot up, I run as the none user. I wanted to create a rian user, so i did 'con /srv/fscons' and 'uname rian rian' then control-/ and 'q'. > > Then i did 'auth/changepass rian' entered my passwords and etc. but at the end i get "changepass: blah blah rian: invalid permissions" So I figured that i'd reboot the system and try logging in as rian without a password. Rio starts up, but just stays there and doesn't do anything (I can move the mouse though). > > This is all I've done, I didn't start a cpu server or anything else manually. I have a slight feeling that maybe Rio just stays empty because of a bad vga driver with qemu but I can't really be sure. > > I've looked at the wiki several times, but there doesn't seem to be any information about what to do after a fresh install from the default distribution. Any advice would be severely appreciated! I've been avid to use Plan 9 for some time now, and I hate the fact that I'm having a hard time getting started (I don't want a negative stimulus). Thanks! > -rian > >