Installing on second disk

Installing on second disk

[Richard]

I reported problems trying to install plan9 on the second (D:) of a two
disk PC while retaining a dos partition there, with the new prep giving
an "error 23" mesage.  I solved the problem by creating my D: dos partition
as an extended, rather than primary, partition and by formatting that
partition with   format d: /s   rather than   format d:   .  I'll guess
that the "/s" is what's necessary, even though the D: disk isn't going to
be used as a DOS boot disk.

Now if I can only get the boot sequence to recognize my ATI ULTRA PRO
(which seems to be an entry in the vgadb as well).

Richard

Installing on second disk

[Richard]

I have a Gateway PC (486/66) with two 400 MB (IDE) disk drives.  I'd
like to install plan9 on the second drive (hd1) but retain there a
modest DOS partion (D:).  If I install the 4 disk "trial" system using
the orignal "prep", all goes well and I have a system I can boot from
hd1, except that, should I run DOS/Windows again, the D: partition is
gone (the partition table has been destroyed, presumably).  It doesn't
matter if I partition the disk with the D: partition at the start or
end of the disk.  On the other hand, if I try the same things using the
new prep, prep complains with
	error 23: Not enough room for boot area

Aside from the notion of moving most of what's on C: to D: and installing
plan9 on C:, can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong or what I might try?

Richard