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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Problem with drawterm.exe: "cpu: failed to chdir"
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:59:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b543b24c03c44f2e49176464a9f6cc28@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfdb2cad0706101453w3efc4eedw80954b3a5f0a4423@mail.gmail.com>

drawterm, like cpu, trys to put you in the same directory on the remote
machine that you were in on the local machine.

in your case this is not possible -- there's no C:\ on plan 9.
but this should not be a problem.  you will just be plopped in bootes
home directory instead.

- erik

> Hello.
> I have just installed plan9 as a cpu/auth/fileserver in vmware. After lots
> of work and hours of reinstalling and messing around with networking and
> bridging I finally got drawterm to connect to it.
> Here's what I get:
>
> user: bootes
> bootes@something.net password:
> cpu: failed to chdir to "C:\"


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-10 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-10 21:53 Patrick Kristiansen
2007-06-10 21:59 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-06-10 22:09   ` Patrick Kristiansen
2007-06-10 22:39     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-06-10 23:13       ` Patrick Kristiansen
2007-06-10 22:54     ` erik quanstrom

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