* [9fans] How do I edit vgadb?
@ 2000-06-27 8:32 Nathaniel Banks
2000-06-27 10:11 ` [9fans] " Holger Veit
2000-07-05 8:33 ` Bruce G. Stewart
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nathaniel Banks @ 2000-06-27 8:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Well, I made it through installing Plan 9 by editing /lib/vgadb in MS
Windows. The install completed, and now I need to make the same change to
the installed system's /lib/vgadb. At user[none], if I enter glenda, the
system can't start the gui, and when I ls, I get an incomplete file
structure listed. If I just choose none, if I type in ed to try and edit
anything, I just get a line that says ?TMP, and another % prompt.
Any ideas on what I might have missed?
Nathaniel Banks
Political Science Major
Western Michigan University
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* [9fans] Re: How do I edit vgadb?
2000-06-27 8:32 [9fans] How do I edit vgadb? Nathaniel Banks
@ 2000-06-27 10:11 ` Holger Veit
2000-07-05 8:33 ` Bruce G. Stewart
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Holger Veit @ 2000-06-27 10:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:32:02 GMT, Nathaniel Banks <x98banks2@wmich.edu> wrote:
>Well, I made it through installing Plan 9 by editing /lib/vgadb in MS
>Windows. The install completed, and now I need to make the same change to
>the installed system's /lib/vgadb. At user[none], if I enter glenda, the
>system can't start the gui, and when I ls, I get an incomplete file
>structure listed. If I just choose none, if I type in ed to try and edit
>anything, I just get a line that says ?TMP, and another % prompt.
>
>Any ideas on what I might have missed?
Use glenda as the user, and do
chmod 775 /usr/glenda/tmp
Unfortunately, 'ed' is the tool of choice in this case, unless you have
a second machine: in this case copy the /lib/vgadb to the DOS formatted floppy
(use a: and cp /lib/vgadb /n/a:) and edit the file on the remote host.
Holger
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* [9fans] Re: How do I edit vgadb?
2000-06-27 8:32 [9fans] How do I edit vgadb? Nathaniel Banks
2000-06-27 10:11 ` [9fans] " Holger Veit
@ 2000-07-05 8:33 ` Bruce G. Stewart
2000-07-05 10:01 ` Holger Veit
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bruce G. Stewart @ 2000-07-05 8:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
ed is kvetching because there it cannot create a file in the directory named
in the environment variable TMP.
Your best bet is to log in as glenda, not none. That way you'll have a tmp
directory available.
Nathaniel Banks wrote:
> Well, I made it through installing Plan 9 by editing /lib/vgadb in MS
> Windows. The install completed, and now I need to make the same change to
> the installed system's /lib/vgadb. At user[none], if I enter glenda, the
> system can't start the gui, and when I ls, I get an incomplete file
> structure listed. If I just choose none, if I type in ed to try and edit
> anything, I just get a line that says ?TMP, and another % prompt.
>
> Any ideas on what I might have missed?
>
> Nathaniel Banks
> Political Science Major
> Western Michigan University
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* [9fans] Re: How do I edit vgadb?
2000-07-05 8:33 ` Bruce G. Stewart
@ 2000-07-05 10:01 ` Holger Veit
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Holger Veit @ 2000-07-05 10:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:33:23 GMT,
Bruce G. Stewart <bruce.g.stewart@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>ed is kvetching because there it cannot create a file in the directory named
>in the environment variable TMP.
>Your best bet is to log in as glenda, not none. That way you'll have a tmp
>directory available.
chmod 755 "your tmp dir"
or
ramfs
Holger
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