ok, overriding the installation script and deliberately doing partdisk, prepdisk, and fmtfossil (which warned me that the partition was already properly formatted), seems to have done it, since i got to watch the system copy all the files...
now, if i can only get the disc bootable again... i did tell it to instal the plan9 bootrecord, but to no avail, it seems. any suggestions? i did try disk/mbr -m /386/mbr /dev/sdC0/data... k >>> "Karljurgen Feuerherm" <[email protected]> 05/16/10 7:58 PM >>> yes, that's what i would have expected too! K >>> ron minnich <[email protected]> 05/16/10 7:09 PM >>> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm <[email protected]> wrote: > well, can't boot from the hard drive (not bootable after all my fiddling, > apparently), and if i boot plan9 from the iso and user glenda, it tells me i > don't have the permissions to do it. and i don't seem to be able to do cons > -l /srv/fscons either (file does not exist...) That's very odd. If you boot from the cd, you're the hostowner, and you should have all the permissions you need to wipe the disk. That's how I clean them. ron
