On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Philip Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> you either remove the cdrom from the virtual machine or make it to
>> emulate scsi.
>> if you're iso is more than 2 days old, you'll have to do
>> % echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl
>> to get vga working well.
> I see, well
> you either remove the cdrom from the virtual machine or make it to
> emulate scsi.
> if you're iso is more than 2 days old, you'll have to do
> % echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl
> to get vga working well.
I see, well I removed the cdrom. But when installing plan9 I entered ega (or
was it cga?!) i
> But now there's a new problem: After installing it and rebooting the
> computer, everything seems normal until the message "init:
> starting /bin/rc". Nothing happens then although the computer does not
> freeze (keyboard input is shown on the screen).
you either remove the cdrom from the virtua
> Remove the CD-ROM drive from your VMware configuration and boot.
>
> John
Thanks a lot! Problem solved... Still weird :-)
Philip
>> you don't need to increase the size of 9fat, either and you
>> don't need a swap partition at all. with 800mb i would partition
>> the disk like:
>>
>> 9fat 20mb
>> nvram 512 bytes
>> fossil700 mb
> Thank you for your help! This worked out...
>
> But now there's a new problem: After
> Thank you for your help! This worked out...
>
> But now there's a new problem: After installing it and rebooting the
> computer, everything seems normal until the message "init:
> starting /bin/rc". Nothing happens then although the computer does not
> freeze (keyboard input is shown on the scre
> you don't need to increase the size of 9fat, either and you
> don't need a swap partition at all. with 800mb i would partition
> the disk like:
>
> 9fat 20mb
> nvram 512 bytes
> fossil700 mb
Thank you for your help! This worked out...
But now there's a new problem: After installing it
> I also made a test doubling each partition's size (exept for nvram) and I
> ended up with some error that told me IIRC that for my large disc FAT16
> doesn't work out, so I would have to use FAT32. Trying to increment each
> partition lowly (starting from the default size) doesn't help either -
>
Hi!
I've downloaded the Plan9 iso from
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html and tried to test the live
cd. It wasn't really possible, at first the boot manager won't really react
(the trick seems to wait a long time...) and then some error appears.
But since I decided to install it on VM
