Re: [9fans] Can't find CD-ROM

[Chris Saunders <evas@mountaincable.net>]

Tried    QEMU but it wouldn't run on my system.  I'm running Vista Ultimate
64-bit and perhaps QEMU doesn't run on a 64-bit system.

Regards
Chris Saunders

"Chris Saunders" <evas@mountaincable.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks, I have downloaded but not yet installed QEMU.  I will try this
> soon.
>
> Regards
> Chris Saunders
>
> "Eris Discordia" <eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:54:20 -0000, Chris Saunders
>> <evas@mountaincable.net> wrote:
>>
>>> As far as I know there is no Open dialog box in Plan9.
>>
>> Not in Plan 9. I thought you might be getting the Virtual PC settings
>> wrong and was referring to the settings on the menu bar on top of your
>> virtual machine window (which belongs to VPC).
>>
>>> I have several times brought the instalation up to
>>> this point and the installer suggests that the install image should be
>>> at
>>> /dev/sdD0/data.
>>
>>
>> If you have come this far, it is clear I was wrong. The install image is
>> indeed where the installer suggests, at /dev/sdD0/data.
>>
>> I guess you get the problem later on when you are asked (by the Plan 9
>> installer) to "browse" for the distribution (at the copydist stage of the
>> installation). At that point, having supplied /dev/sdD0/data as your data
>> source before, you have to tell the installer to look in the / directory
>> of the image for the distribution to copy. Just type in "/" (without the
>> quotes) there.
>>
>> I think it is acceptable to reiterate that: "Plan 9 does NOT work on
>> VPC's current version. Try QEMU instead." I have the latest version of
>> VPC for Windows XP x64 and no amount of usual tweaking would make Plan 9
>> work on it. The installation finishes but the installed system will not
>> boot past the startup scripts. Yours will probably fail, too. My two
>> cents of failure :-)
>>
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