[9fans] How do I edit vgadb?

[9fans] How do I edit vgadb?

[Nathaniel Banks]

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

[9fans] Re: How do I edit vgadb?

[Holger Veit]

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?

[Bruce G. Stewart]

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

[9fans] Re: How do I edit vgadb?

[Holger Veit]

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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