From: Ture P}lsson ture@lysator.liu.se
Subject: `file does not exist' when copying first stage files
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:20:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950816172054.Q4Nv_trdRSc_GuLT948Af6G3p6_5OLMtQfpWd8x4G0M@z> (raw)
[ Hm. First attempt bounced. Hope you don't see this twice... ]
After some trial-and-error, I've finally got Plan 9 up and running
on my home machine. Here's what I learned in the process:
* The installation procedure doesn't like anything before the DOS
partition on the disk. I had a Linux swap partition there, which
caused the mount of C: on /n/c to fail. The installation program
then merrily went on copying files into /n/c, which was now a plain
direcory on the floppy. I.e, it _was_ copying the floppy onto
itself, like I suspected.
How about removing the >/dev/null redirections from the rc files in
the distribution, so one can see what is going on?
* Having LILO (the Linux boot loader) in the master boot record
apparently doesn't work with Plan9. After installing the files from
the first floppy and rebooting, the PLAN9\B thing refused to start
Plan 9. Replacing the MBR with a vanilla DOS one (FDISK /MBR) solved
this problem (but also means I can't boot Linux anymore, since it's
on the second hard disk, which the DOS MBR doesn't understand. Foo.)
-- Ture
next reply other threads:[~1995-08-16 17:20 UTC|newest]
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1995-08-16 17:20 Ture [this message]
1995-08-16 18:11 Frank
1995-08-16 23:26 Boyd
1995-08-17 14:53 carvell
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