What would cause...

[J. Hierro-Grosse jhg@login.dknet.dk]

Er, I seem to recall that during the install, Plan9 writes some
configuration details to Floppy #1 - In fact I recall a note somewhere
about making a backup copy of floppy #1 ..just in case...I hope this is
not off the subject & helps?

Joe.

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> John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs.columbia.EDU) wrote:
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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.
> 
> The reason that I figure it is trying to install to itself is when I
> write-protected the disk, I got I/O errors during install.  When I made the
> disk writable, everything seemed to work fine but nothing was on the hard
> drive.
> 
> Eric Lemings
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