From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:01:09 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Tom Simons , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] need intro to Plan9 In-Reply-To: <2e4a50a041224104434723187@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2e4a50a041224104434723187@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1cf68b62-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I liked what I read on the Plan9 site, so I made the boot disk & CD, > and installed it on a PC at work. It boots to a prompt > "[local!#S/sdC01/fossil]:". I hit enter and get another prompt "user > [none]:". I type "glenda" and back comes a beautiful screen. The > keyboard "Num Lock" light never turns off, and ctl-alt-del doesn't > work - in fact, all key combinations that I've tried just print some > char on the screen. I'm navigating clumsily - it'd be great to watch > an experienced user on this system, so I could find out about basic > stuff like command prompts, system info (I like the running graphic > display, but would also like "ps -ef"), networking, and then be able > to add new users and telnet/ssh to our other machines. What does the beautiful screen look like? Usually the screen looks like http://swtch.com/plan9install.png which has instructions on the screen about learning to move around in rio (the window manager) and acme (the yellow text editor). Russ