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From: Deepak Chawla <dchawla@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] install failing to detect SATA disk
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:56:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPCGcM-M750_juJoy0gURQ3eM+-45=2OyS5ns6EtfdmL5Umgtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPCGcM-xEWU_9k21ym9PdG6_qNL1q8ooZDrAv5K19s-E3DoCxQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Got mouse back on the VBox VM - had to uncheck "Enable absolute pointing
device" under Settings->Systems->Motherboard.

Back to the Plan 9 install issue on native h/w.. does Plan 9 support SATA
controllers? My VBox VM also needed the HDD to be on the IDE controller.


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Deepak Chawla <dchawla@gmail.com> wrote:

> No /dev/sd* directory. I only found a /dev/sdctl.
>
> On a side note, I got plan 9 installed on a VBox VM - had to install an
> older version of VBox and use IDE controller for the virtual disk.
> Mouse worked during install but not after that.
> On Feb 16, 2013 1:06 AM, "erik quanstrom" <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat Feb 16 02:00:46 EST 2013, dchawla@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > sorry.. very new to plan9
>> >
>> > how to I open a new terminal to run the command?
>>
>> first a bit of terminology.  the mouse buttons in plan 9 are
>> B1, B2, B3 from left to right.  the right most button is always
>> B3 even if there is no middle button.
>>
>> hold b3 down in the grey background and a menu will appear.
>> release with "new" highlighted.  goto one the top left corner,
>> press and hold b3 and sweep to bottom right corner, then release b3.
>>
>> - erik
>>
>> ps.  here's a more complete reference:
>>
>> http://www.quanstro.net/newbie-guide.pdf
>>
>>

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-16  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-16  6:40 Deepak Chawla
2013-02-16  6:49 ` erik quanstrom
2013-02-16  6:59   ` Deepak Chawla
2013-02-16  7:05     ` erik quanstrom
2013-02-16  8:13       ` Deepak Chawla
2013-02-16  8:56         ` Deepak Chawla [this message]
2013-02-16 15:11           ` erik quanstrom
2013-02-18  9:07             ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-02-18 15:57               ` Deepak Chawla
2013-02-18 16:03                 ` erik quanstrom

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