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

["Eris Discordia" <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

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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