From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
Subject: Installing & IP
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 23:28:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19961006032804.W4R-Yso3JsX5Ts019CL0fdUU-0HYaFHfkAiBrvNrB4k@z> (raw)
> Assorted system trivia is: Pentium, 16M ram, IDE disks, 3c590 10/100
> ethernet interface (Plan 9 detects it as a 3c509), video works in
> 1 bit vga mode.
Even the most recent 4-floppy set will not work correctly with the 3C595
(which is what I think you have, the 3C590 is a 10Mbps card only and should work).
Short of me back-porting the Brazil driver to Plan 9 and making a new set of
floppies, you will need to get a supported card if you want to use the network.
> And a third question in the line of trivia: The Plan 9 install
> disks boot directly to the Plan 9 operating system, but once
> it is installed, you have to have MS-DOS and use b.com to
> load it. Why put DOS in the middle?
You can always use a floppy to boot Plan 9 directly, we just never bothered doing
all the IDE drive booting stuff (99.9% of the time we boot directly over the network
and don't use the discs for anything other than holding b.com and plan9.ini).
Jim McKie
jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
next reply other threads:[~1996-10-06 3:28 UTC|newest]
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1996-10-06 3:28 jmk [this message]
1996-10-07 13:30 jmk
1996-10-07 13:52 miller
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