Geoff,
Please do not kill the floppy install option.
I have a few computers that are not able to
boot from CD, but can do so from floppy.
I think the few people that do like to run Plan 9
natively, like myself, perhaps do so on older
computers where this is likely the case.
do it for the
make
On Sun Jul 26 02:12:21 EDT 2009, bval...@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest that you keep the floppy-install option. If Plan 9 is
installed, its normally on a virtual machine, or on an older computer
somewhere in the garage, often with floppy-drives only. But if its
time consuming to support it...
do
All my floppy drives died and were thus disposed some years ago.
I forgot the obvious: Install a bootloader capable of booting CD-ROMs to a
floppy.
--
Ethan Grammatikidis
Those who are slower at parsing information must
necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:51:54PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
I forgot the obvious: Install a bootloader capable of booting CD-ROMs to a
floppy.
This won't help if the BIOS doesn't support El Torito, since a
bootloader has generally no drivers (except for ethernet perhaps), and
since
Installing off floppy has been seriously suboptimal for a long time.
It's probably time to finally kill it. Surely no one still has
a machine with a floppy drive but no cd nor dvd drive.
I've just rebuilt /n/sources/plan9/386/9*load* from
/n/sources/plan9/sys/src/boot/pc.
Hi, folks!
I have bought a WDC WD1002FBYS-01A6B0 SATA II disk to install a Plan 9 on it.
However , my CD/DVD drive is not SATA, but a rather old one hanging on an IDE
cable (primary master). Moreover, there is only one IDE slot on the
motherboard, thus I cannot make the CD to be 'secondary
This is what I get:
PBS1...
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR:CCL8
pcirouting: South bridge 8086, 2810 not found
islba: drive 0x80 extensions version 48.0 cx 0x5
exgetsize: drive 0x80 info flags 0x0
bios0: drive 0x80: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes, type 3
reading drive 0x80 offset 0 into seg: off
