Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

["Bence Fábián" <begnoc@gmail.com>]

Generally for mounting different things Plan 9 uses user processes
which can read the given filesystem and post a named pipe in /srv.
Then they translate everything internally and speak 9P on this pipe.
Then you can mount this using mount, and can give plus arguments

mount /srv/file /n/mountpoint arg

/n and /mnt are special because they create directories automatically.
Run 9660srv then use mount on the posted file giving the path to the
cd as an argument.

2014-03-09 10:28 GMT+01:00, Steve Foster <steve-jf@outlook.com>:
> Hi all.
> I'm new here and to plan 9.
> I'm the kind of person who doesn't always pick things up straight away, I'm
> a bit slow like that :-) The light bulb usually goes on - eventually.
> Sometimes I just need someone to flick the switch a few times. So if my
> questions come across as a bit dumb you'll know why.
> OK, so I'm new to Plan 9. I've managed to install it in virtualbox (Windows
> 7 host) and can log in and use it. I've also installed plan9port onto
> Lubuntu, also running in a virtual machine.
> Acme has become my main work environment now, I was an emacs user. I like
> acme a lot and spend most of my time in there (I'm writing this post in it).
> I use two screens; one with acme (plan9port) and the other with everything
> else. This set up is working well for me and I'm happy to carry on working
> like this.
> However, I would love to try working with acme in plan 9 itself. Well, I can
> use it with no problems (so far anyway), but I can't get networking or
> shared folders (virtualbox shared folders) working. This means, obviously,
> that plan 9 is isolated from the outside world so any work I do is stuck in
> there. Now, I'm trying ot get my head around the whole plan 9 thing and how
> it works. I admit I'm struggling with it, but don't want to give up just
> yet.
> So for starters, does anyone know how to get shared folders (virtualbox
> shared folders) working in plan 9, I have them working OK in Lubuntu so no
> problem there.? I know you have to install the virtualbox guest additions
> and  this is easy to do, but...
> This shows how much of a doofus I am. I don't know how to access the CD
> drive in plan 9 which is where the guest additions would be installed from.
> How do I do this please? I have searched, but have not managed to find the
> answer, or maybe I have found it and didn't understand it.
> I've been reading the 9fan archives and realise that technically all you
> chaps are way above me (as you can tell from my question) so please be
> patient with me :-)
> I also can't get networking to work which may or may not be related to the
> above, I'm not sure. I have tried the different suggestions I've found, but
> nothing seems to work. If I could just get shared folders working that would
> be great to start with.
> Thanks,Steve.