From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu,  9 Nov 1995 12:56:41 -0500
From: John D. Pritchard jdp@cs.columbia.edu
Subject: What would cause...
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i *doubt* that the floppy is trying to write to itself -- it reads alot
during boot, it's all reading, though.

if the installation isn't getting up to (or past) "...put 1.2Mb on your
disk..."  i would think it's because it can't deal with your disk partition
set up.

it makes sense because the first stage of the install (into C:\PLAN9) is
just a step towards installing into it's own partition, which you don't
have.

i believe you have to have (maybe the *lowest* partition, i dont know) a
DOS partition *and* a free partition in the high end of your disk, in order
to begin any of the installation.

-john


> What would cause Installation Disk 1 to try installing
> the files to the floppy disk instead of the hard disk?
> This is what it seems to be doing in my case.
> 
> The hard disk is configured as follows:
> 
> 	Partition 1	Non-Dos		29 Meg
> 	Partition 2 C:	Primary DOS	300 Meg
> 
> 	Total Disk Space:	420 Meg
> 
> The first partition is there because the computer
> is used as a network client.  I created the second
> partition to install Plan 9 onto.