From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:20:54 -0400
From: Ture P}lsson ture@lysator.liu.se
Subject: `file does not exist' when copying first stage files
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[ 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