From: jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com
Subject: installing plan9 demo on a PC
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 22:02:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950815020237.TsXK0fnjhNrGkobFBWqJFPnfjd-0u-H2ryr0WyzDQjk@z> (raw)
don't see anything obviously wrong with this (why doesn't sd!1 show up as a
boot device?). to get 'error walking to 9dos' one of the elements in the
path has to show up either as a non-directory or could not be found in the
directory scan (i.e. 'plan9' isn't being found in c:). this is surprising
because the files were obviously put there by plan9 during the first part
of the installation.
check the disc isn't corrupt.
copy the plan9.ini and 9dos files to the root of c: and then try
plan9\b sd!0!9dos
it's a mystery.
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From: bhogan@bedlam.rahul.net (Bill Hogan)
To: plan9-fans@cse.psu.edu
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
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