From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:42:14 +0000 From: Balwinder S Dheeman Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , Subject: Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user Topicbox-Message-UUID: ea447d76-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 04/19/2009 09:09 PM, Jim Habegger wrote: > Eric and Anthony, thank you. > > I'm stepping through the Plan 9 documentation at > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/documentation/index.html. As you > noticed, Anthony, I missed a step in adding a new user: > > con -l /srv/fscons > > > That didn't work in 9vx either, I imagine for the reasons you explained. > I'm still way over my head here. > > For now I'll use QEMU to step through the Plan 9 documentation, and > later I might use 9vx for other learning purposes. Now that I've learned > to change the display dimensions, and use ctrl-alt, it's easy to switch > between QEMU and my other windows. I've already created a new user. > > I won't push my luck tonight. I'll wait until tomorrow to try network > configuration. IMHO, you need not switch between your Plan 9 installation under QEMU and 9vx; Just stick to a real Plan 9 under QEMU and this I hope will help you better learn, experiment and, or try procedures described on the wiki and other docs. I don't who and why one referred you to try 9vx, an abridged version which is far away from a real or native installation of a Plan 9 under QEMU, KVM, XEN and, or VMWare. Many a things e.g. page, gs, mail do not work out of the box as expected under 9vx as yet. -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://cto.homelinux.net/~bsd/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/