Thanks, I have downloaded but not yet installed QEMU. I will try this soon.
Regards Chris Saunders "Eris Discordia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 :-) > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
