IBM-PC install on E: drive?

[John D. Pritchard jdp@cs.columbia.edu]

hi, to install onto a partition, just use fdisk to delete the logical
drive -- as long as your partition is the highest one on the disk, plan9
will go into it for the File System Installation.

the first step of the installation puts the contents of the boot disk into
C:\plan9

btw, if your last fdisk was with OS/2's fdisk, you'll need to redo you're
disk with a DOS fdisk.


> I have a 1 gig hard disk which is split into 3 partitions, C:, D:, and
> E:.  Therefore, my E: drive is not on a separate disk.  This partition
> is already large enough to accomodate the Plan-9 software (it's around
> 200 meg), and what I would like to do is simply to make it a non-DOS
> partition and do the install.  Yes, I know: if I make this partition
> non-DOS, then it will not be the "E:" drive any more.

yup, works great

> Will this work?  It seems like it will.  Has anyone tried something
> like this?

> And while I'm here, I might as well ask if anyone has had any trouble
> using DPT SCSI disk controllers with Plan-9.  My particular model
> is PM 2021.