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[chuckf]

Federico Benavento ,

Ok then I'll put the iso in my fat32 partition. This would be hda2 (sdC0? something)
The install program will partition the available space to Plan9 and the necessary 
sub-partitions will be proposed as well as formatted?
After preparing the necessary sub-partitions the install program will
ask for the image ie local  and it will find it? Thereafter I should proceed as per the 
directions. Right?

Thanks



----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     Federico Benavento <benavento@gmail.com>
An:      Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Datum:   12.09.2006 22:55
Betreff: Re: [9fans] (no subject)

> hola,
> 
> On 9/12/06, Chuck Foreman <chuckf@arcor.de> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> this is how I always do it, I put the .iso in a fat32 partition, there
> is no magic
> about it, the installer knows how to do it, you get prompts, in one you
> choose
> the media (the fat32 partition) in other you browse to the dir where
> the .iso is located.
> 
> -- 
> Federico G. Benavento
> 

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[Sascha Retzki]

> The install program will partition the available space to Plan9 and the necessary 
> sub-partitions will be proposed as well as formatted?

Short: yes.

Long: You may want to read the involved manpages (as they are on the cd, a new window and 'man foo' will do the trick'), and there were rumours about disk/fdisk writting 'foreign' partitions in another order (never happened to me as I do not dual-boot).

> After preparing the necessary sub-partitions the install program will
> ask for the image ie local  and it will find it? 

after you have told it were to find it (it will list all available (supported) partitions, then ask for the image (or the root of it) in that FS).

>Thereafter I should proceed as per the 
> directions. Right?

I have never done this myself but I do not see any further problems - the installation should, despite the 'where is the distribution'-step, behave like in the wiki/as everytime... .

Mfg, Sascha

> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Nachricht ----
> Von:     Federico Benavento <benavento@gmail.com>
> An:      Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
> Datum:   12.09.2006 22:55
> Betreff: Re: [9fans] (no subject)
> 
>> hola,
>> 
>> On 9/12/06, Chuck Foreman <chuckf@arcor.de> wrote:
>> 
>> > 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?
>> 
>> this is how I always do it, I put the .iso in a fat32 partition, there
>> is no magic
>> about it, the installer knows how to do it, you get prompts, in one you
>> choose
>> the media (the fat32 partition) in other you browse to the dir where
>> the .iso is located.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Federico G. Benavento
>>