From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] non-standard installs
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:36:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020321083934.25E8619A84@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
>>I found (repeatedly) that trying to put Plan 9 into a clean
>>secondary partition corrupted the size of the enclosing primary
>>partition. I was able to put it back, but thankfully the whole 40Gb
i don't understand how it got that far. it normally refuses to
install into anything other than unused space not claimed by anything else,
that is space not in any partition, and
certainly not space inside another partition. (i didn't know it was
even possible to set such a configuration on a PC using Windows fdisk
or partdisk [or is it diskpart?].)
next reply other threads:[~2002-03-21 8:36 UTC|newest]
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2002-03-21 8:36 forsyth [this message]
2002-03-21 13:34 ` Martin C.Atkins
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2002-03-21 19:46 Richard Miller
2002-03-21 16:33 Russ Cox
2002-03-20 9:43 Andrew
2002-03-21 7:31 ` Martin C.Atkins
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