David Hendricks, I'll happily try another image ! Where would I find an earlier image? Is there a repository somewhere?
Thanks ----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: David Hendricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]> Datum: 12.09.2006 22:47 Betreff: Re: [9fans] (no subject) > I've been having a similar issue with the latest install CD where I > can boot from the CD but it is not recognzied. Just out of curiosity, > could you try an older one and see what happens? I think my "working" > bootable image is from January '04. > > On 9/12/06, Chuck Foreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How to install: > > My Laptop won't allow both a CD and a floppy drive. The CD controller > > is somehow not recognized despite booting from the CD! It recognizes > > the floppy drive despite it not being there... Anyway... I can use use > the > > floppy drive to boot from for the install. I need to get some feedback > > regarding the order of install. > > > > Since I can't store the image on CD and use the floppy at the same time; > > > > Is there any advantage to using cfdisk to set the available primary > > partition > > for Plan 9 in advance of the floppy install? > > What happens when it finds an existing Plan 9 partition? > > Will/would the "partdisk" step do this "automatically" ie > > prompting for the necessary partitions? > > > > If I interrupted the install at that point (after the partitioning > > but prior to loading the image)could I theoretically put/copy > > the Plan9.iso image into the Plan 9 partition.. is there any benefit to > > that? > > > > > > Should I put the image somewhere on the HDD (a Primary Fat32, Primary > > F-BSD, an log/ext linux reiserfs)and mount this at that stage in the > > install? > > Should I wait and see what the install will prompt for available media.. > > interrupt > > if necessary..copy the media there) and resume the install? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Taking it slowly and deliberatly > > > > -- > > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > >
