From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 22:34:46 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com
Subject: Help wanted, Plan9 a piece of junk!
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I took a look in comp.os.linux.misc and felt right at home - there were articles
about weird hangs trying to install distributions, hardware not being recognised,
mice not being found, filesystems being trashed (NOT related to Plan 9), etc.

	From: bhogan@rahul.net (Bill Hogan)
	Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
	Subject: Re: Help wanted, Plan9 a piece of junk!
	Date: 14 Aug 1995 22:26:05 GMT
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	In-reply-to: xke@paul.rutgers.edu's message of 15 Aug 1995 00:10:54 -0400
	
	"XK" == Xiao Ke <xke@paul.rutgers.edu> writes:
	In article <40p6oe$q2t@paul.rutgers.edu> xke@paul.rutgers.edu (Xiao Ke) writes:
	
	
	  XK> Hi, there,
	  XK> Help wanted, Plan9, the so boasted next generation os is just a piece of
	  XK> junk. This time, AT&T really picked a good name for plan9.
	
	  XK> I've run linux1.2.0 for about a half year, everything seems OK.
	  XK> Today, I download the plan9 to play with, it looks working too.
	  XK> However, actually when I was installing plan9, it overwrote my linux
	  XK> partition without any pre-warning.
	
	  XK> My linux partition is not bootable now, and I try to boot from floppy,
	  XK> and do fsck on it, it says: "bad magic number". So definately
	  XK> plan9 overwrote my linux partition.
	
	  XK> I want to recover my more than half-year work, since I don't have tape
	  XK> backup. Please help! Any suggestion will be mostly appreciated.
	  XK> I guess this is doable, since my linux partition occupies 400Mbytes, 
	  XK> while plan9 only occupies 20Mbytes according to its installation notes,
	  XK> so it looks like the rest 380Mbytes should be able to recoverd, sounds
	  XK> reasonable?
	
	  XK> Thanks,
	
	  XK> -----Xiao Ke
	  XK> xke@paul.rutgers.edu 
	
	   Hello Xiao.
	
	     I do not know if you will be able to salvage what used to be your
	Linux partition or not.
	
	     I do know that the plan9 installation guide is something I would
	be ashamed to have appear in print under my name.
	
	     Given that ATT is apparently planning on *selling* plan9 at $350
	per, and given the availability of packages like the Slackware Linux
	book/CDROM at < $50 per, I find it totally amazing that ATT would put
	out such a half-baked, half-hearted PC/plan9 demo package!
	
	     Some demo.
	
	     Up until now I had thought I was having a problem because I could
	not reboot plan9/B after it was installed on my hard drive but now I
	count myself fortunate it didn't.
	     
	     Bill
	
	     
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