Re: [9fans] Install Advice Requested.

2013-06-30 Thread tlaronde
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:50:34AM -0400, Erik Quanstrom wrote: > The wording might not be what was intended. Prep -p emits commands to build > the sd(3) partition table in memory. Nothing is written to disk. > Nonetheless, if things haven't changed, Plan9 can not be installed on an extended

Re: [9fans] Install Advice Requested.

2013-06-30 Thread Erik Quanstrom
The wording might not be what was intended. Prep -p emits commands to build the sd(3) partition table in memory. Nothing is written to disk. - erik Terry Wendt wrote: >tlaronde - Thank you for the abstract you sent. It sent me to the >manual pages, which is almost always a good thing. In

[9fans] Install Advice Requested.

2013-06-30 Thread Terry Wendt
tlaronde - Thank you for the abstract you sent. It sent me to the manual pages, which is almost always a good thing. In the prep(8) online manual page, I found the following listed as a bug: "If prep –p doesn't find a Plan 9 partition table, it will emit commands to delete all extant partitions.

Re: [9fans] Install Advice requested

2013-06-30 Thread tlaronde
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 02:31:44AM -0400, Terry Wendt wrote: > > I copied the plan9.iso over to the plan9 partition, and even copied > all the files and directories as well. The plan9 partition is not an uniq filesystem but a slice of the disk allocated to plan9 and organized in several sub-part