From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri,  6 Oct 1995 02:44:23 -0400
From: Will Rose cwr@crash.cts.com
Subject: CDROM mount?
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I'm trying to install Plan 9 from CDROM, and unfortunately
have only a 500MB hard drive; the current CDROMs need 525MB,
ie. a 1G drive, and I can't afford that at the moment.  I
can boot the floppies, and Plan 9 recognises all the hardware
(WD80xx, Adaptec 1542C, no soundcard); the VGA card isn't
acceptable for windowing, but I can buy another one.

But what I can't do at the moment is find a way to mount the
CDROM - the installation assumes that CDROMs are hung off
a sound card, and tho' the install finds the CDROM on the 
Adaptec, the floppy install produces no /dev/sd3fs and I
can't find a way to make one.  I've been down the chain
9660srv => kfs => bind #R, and also taken a look at plan9.ini,
but nothing gells.  (I assume that once I mount the CDROM,
I can find a way to install it in 500MB - if that's a vain
hope, I'd be glad of the information now...).

Can anyone give a simple way to mount a CDROM on a system
built from floppies?  Obviously, I have the manuals so a
reference will do.

Note to the editors - please revise the MSDOS install chapter,
Vol 2 pp. 447-462; it shows its background, covering trivial
MSDOS commands in otiose detail, and falling silent on the more
unusual (to the readers) Plan 9 arcana.  And as a personal
favour, please stop 'centering around' things.  It's mathematically
unsound...

Thanks - Will
cwr@crash.cts.com
PS - a really dumb question: what's the pager called?  I tried
more, less, page, tail, and even view and they weren't present on
the floppy system, tho' some of them exist.  Ed saves the day!