From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 00:49:00 -0400
From: Bill Hogan bhogan@bedlam.rahul.net
Subject: installing plan9 demo on a PC
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   Hello.

   I took a first crack at installing the plan9 demo on my PC
yesterday.
   
   Schematically:

	Boot from Disk 1	OK
	Create c:\plan9, etc	OK
	Create plan9.ini	OK (see below)
	Remove disk 1 & reboot	???

   That is, after I reboot to DOS and give the command

	C:>plan9\B

instead of the next stage of the installation process, I get the error
message

        "error walking to 9dos"


and it asks me where to "boot from" so I gave it sd!0!/plan9/9dos but
I got the same error message back.

   Here is what it says it sees:

scsi devices:
-----------------
scsi0 = dos C: drive
scsi1 = dos D: drive
scsi2 = dos E: <----------- this is where I want to install plan9
scsi3 = dos F:
scsi4 = dos H: (Texel cdrom)

boot devices:
-----------------
fd!1
sd!0
sd!2
sd!3


   Here is a directory listing of C:\plan9:

bedlam:[*root*]/C/plan9 # ls -lt --rev
----------------------------------------------------------------
total 568
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        61280 Aug 11 20:26 b.com*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          208 Aug 11 20:26 notice*
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         2048 Aug 11 20:26 adm/
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       437704 Aug 11 20:26 9dos*
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         2048 Aug 11 20:26 srv/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         2048 Aug 11 20:26 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         2048 Aug 11 20:27 386/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         2048 Aug 11 20:27 lib/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         2048 Aug 11 20:27 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root     root         2048 Aug 11 20:27 n/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         2048 Aug 11 20:27 rc/
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          132 Aug 12 09:19 plan9.ini*
------------------------------------------------------------------

and here is plan9.ini:

bedlam:[*root*]/C/plan9 # cat plan9.ini
----------------------------------------
mouseport=0
monitor=vga
vgasize=640x480x1
scsi0=type=aha1542 port=0x330
console=cga
bootfile=sd!0!/plan9/9dos
rootdir=/plan9
-----------------------------------------

   Thank you in advance for your kind assistance.

   Bill