[comp.os.linux.misc] Help wanted, Plan9 a piece of junk!

[Ture P}lsson ture@lysator.liu.se]

> >[...]
> >I want to recover my more than half-year work, since I don't have tape
> >backup.
> 
> HAHAHAHA!!  Stop it, you're killing me!

Seriously, I don't like the way the 4-disk set is supposed to
magically figure out what partition on my disk to install on. I have a
farily complicated partition setup, and I want to tell Plan 9 to "go
onto /dev/hda3, period!" (Or whatever Plan 9 calls the third partition
on the first disk).

However, I haven't managed to get as far as actually installing the
thing. During the fist stage, copying files to C:\PLAN9, it says
"problem copying file: file does not exist" about a file which most
certainly is on the floppy -- both DOS and Linux can read
it. (Naturally, I left my notes at home so I don't remember the exact
name of the file...) After rebooting into DOS, there's no trace of
Plan9 on C:, but when I reboot from the first Plan9 floppy it tells me
that Plan9 is already on my disk, and asks whether I want to
reconfigure.

I'm beginning to suspect that the installation program somehow gets
confused by my setup, and tries to copy the floppy onto itself, or
something similarly stupid. Is that possible?

I _am_ two megabytes showt of RAM (i.e, I have only 6 MB). Is 8 Mbytes
a "hard" limit, or is it just a "it-will-run-but-not-very-fast" limit?
(Even Solaris can run in 8 Mbytes, and I though Plan9 was supposed to
be small?)

My setup is: Noname asian-made 386+387sx, AMI BIOS, Trident 8900C, two
Seagate IDE disks (102 + 545 Mbytes, on the same controller), one 3.5"
(known by dos as A:) and one 5.25" floppy.