On Dec 9, 2007 8:01 PM, Alasdair Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have successfully (?) installed plan 9 from the Live/installation CD . > However Bootsetup will not create a boot floppy. > Afer inserting a floppy in the drive and pressing 'enter' I get the > following error message: > > ls /dev/sd0/cdboot '/dev/sdD0' file does not exist > will not format non-floppy disk /dev/sdD0/cdboot > > My CD drive is sdC1 (primary slave) . So I guess that Bootsetup is unable to > find the source file it needs to create the floppy . > Is this assessment of the problem correct?
Yes. > If so, > How do I let Bootsetup know where my CD drive is? It is hardcoded, so your current options are: 1) download and use a boot floppy from Bell Labs[1] site, or 2) move your CD to another IDE cable (i.e. primary master on another cable) and go through the installation process again. Regards, Navin [1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.flp.gz
