Seems like there would be an option number:
3) Make a boot floppy, as discussed in update(8) and esp. the
EXAMPLES subhead in prep(8).
My advice above is not directly useful to you. As Eric pointed out,
9load + 9pcf.gz won't fit together on a 1.44MB floppy. I just didn't
see his message before sending mine, and hadn't thought about putting
a fossil kernel on a floppy. My apologies for the misdirection.
As Erik also notes, fossil systems generally boot not from floppy,
but from the 9fat partition on a hard disk.
Hi, CD drive is now sdD0, installed again but got the same error
message on attempting to create boot floppy.
Downloaded plan9.flp.gz, on attempting to decompress got the
following error:
gunzip: data stream error
gunzip: plan9.flp.gz: uncompress failed
Is the file on the server corrupt, or am I doing something wrong
(again!).
Plan9.flp.gz is an installer image -- basically what you already have
on the bootable CD. I don't think it's appropriate for what you're
trying to do, and I didn't recommend it. That said, while gnu gzip
may not open it, plan9 gzip(1) will (from your live cd); windows 7zip
will too, by my test. So I don't believe it's corrupt on the server.
One last thing, perhaps I should have mentioned. Plan 9 (on the
hard disk) is installed in the last 6 GB of a 40 GB disk, behind
Windows XP on NTFS, Windows is the active partition.
That's rather pertinent. There are messages in the list archives
about dual-booting; I think /n/sources/contrib/rsc/mbr.bootmgr,
``Smart Boot Manager,'' might help. I can't say I've tried it myself,
beyond just now checking that it brings up a partition selection
screen on boot, once installed as the mbr on a disk.
--
Josh
