From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 09:35:18 -0400 From: jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com Subject: [Qs] Plan9 & linux Topicbox-Message-UUID: 25cde056-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950922133518.a-4gBljUpYcOWoideS6BzW4CmamWhQ9WcnO-iFuFrus@z> at the moment you are out of luck. there will hopefully be a new version of the 4-diskette system soon which will allow you to use any FAT partition as the temporary install filesystem. but beware, plan 9 does not install onto a partition on your disc, but creates its own filesystem on any unclaimed space on the disc beyond the partitions described by the master boot record. read the installation instructions and errata carefully. ------ original message follows ------ >>From cse.psu.edu!9fans-outgoing-owner Fri Sep 22 05:08:33 EDT 1995 Received: by colossus.cse.psu.edu id <78394>; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 04:54:05 -0400 Received: from goggins.bath.ac.uk ([138.38.32.13]) by colossus.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <78393>; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 04:53:48 -0400 Received: from bath.ac.uk (actually host solomon.bath.ac.uk) by goggins.bath.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 22 Sep 1995 09:53:21 +0100 Original-Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@bath.ac.uk (9fans@cse.psu.edu) PP-warning: Illegal Received field on preceding line To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 08:12:33 -0400 From: Jean Mehat Message-ID: <43tr5h$3qd@cleopatre.pasteur.fr> Organization: Institut Pasteur, Paris Subject: [Qs] Plan9 & linux Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. Sender: owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu I would like to install plan9 on my linux box, but I don't have DOS on my machine, and have an already partitionned hard disk. Do I really have to install DOS to install and boot the pcdist floppies, or is a DOS filesystem necessary/sufficient? Can I force plan9 to install itself on the swap partition? What partitions are used by pcdist : the 2d, the last, all but the first, the first not labelled as DOS? Is there a a way to specify which partition the installation program should use? -- Jean Mehat, universite de Paris 8 Vincennes a Saint Denis, jm@univ-paris8.fr, ((33) 1) 49 40 64 03, ((33) 1) 49 40 67 83 (fax)