From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 15:18:33 -0400
From: Will Rose cwr@crash.cts.com
Subject: SS2 Standalone issues
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JUSTdan (dan@dan.COM) wrote:

: Much thanks to those who have helped me get much further along in the 
: standalone installation.. So far, I have:

: 1) mounted the cdrom while booted into sunos, copied /sparc/bin/9sscd into the
: root of the sunos partition and issued a 'reboot 9sscd' command to boot with 
: the cd kernel.
: 2) specified local as boot device, and entered the user name 'sys' to match 
: most of the system file ownerships.
: 3) bound in the sd1 disk to unpack the cd onto with:

: bind -a '#'w1 /dev           (I didnt realize earlier that '' was needed.)
[...good stuff skipped...]

Join the club - I had several hours of struggle when installing Plan 9
on a PC thro' forgetting to escape #; I'd read about it, but of course
forgot it again.  It has to go in the FAQ, underlined for emphasis...

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com