From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing Plan9 under vmware From: "Russ Cox" Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:09:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060326200102.1530b0e5@kodos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 224f229c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Where would I enter these settings? > I haven't figured out how to use the plan9.ini to configure the > installation yet... Do those things go in ISO_ROOT/plan9.ini ? It should ask you during boot. If you're not getting that far, then the problem is earlier. What goes on in termrc (after the init: print) is: - fdisk of /dev/sd*/data - mount floppy drive and write some files - start aux/vmware - configure loopback device - ask about dma mode, vga, etc. In the ^T^Tp listings, if you see fdisk running, then you're in that first one. If you see dossrv running, then you at least started the second. If you see vmware running, then you at least started the third. It's hard to believe the fourth would hang, and you'd see the fifth. My bet would be that aux/vmware is hanging. > In that case, I guess the easiest solution is to unpack the iso, add > the correct file, and then repack it. Or could I put that file on a > floppy disc/image and have the installer find it there? You can't actually unpack the ISO and repack it, unless you do so under Plan 9. The CD contains Plan 9 extensions to ISO9660 that hold the Plan 9 metadata (long names, uid, gid, mode). If you lose these, installing probably won't work so well. Russ