That was acutualy what happened. It just took 5 minutes and the first time I gave it so long was while I was writing to 9fans.

Any idea why it takes 5 minutes for it to work?

-Patrick

 

On 6/10/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:

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:\"