On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:54:20 -0000, Chris Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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