From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin C.Atkins To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] non-standard installs Message-Id: <20020321130159.2c169bac.martin@mca-ltd.com> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:01:59 +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6af59230-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi, On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:43:14 GMT Andrew wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'd really like to get some hands-on experience with Plan9, > the thing that stops me is some hardware resource shortage... > I got a linux box with some spare disk space, but no "unpartitioned" and > it's not to be played with as it's used for everyday routine work. I'm sure I'm just unlucky, but given my (recent) experience of installing Plan 9 for the first time, I'd stay well away from your "production" machine, even if it did have a clean partition. 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 was brand new at the time, and so this wasn't necessary (except as a vain attempt to keep the other partitions as the shop had left them). Thus, I eventually scrapped the whole partition table, and put Plan 9 into a primary partition. Since then it's all gone fine..... I'm sorry, I wish it weren't true, since I'd like to have nothing but good to say, but that's what happened.... and I thought I really should warn you, incase you suddenly think "Oh - it should be safe, I'll give it a try!". Now if Plan 9 booted in VMware... Sigh.... (But many thanks to those who tried to get it to work for me!) Martin PS as for the ancient machines... these look pretty big to me :-) > I also got a pretty ancient 486sx with 40Mb ram, but 150Mb disk. > (don't laugh please) > If I read install instructions correctly I have to have 300Mb minimum to be > able to install. > ... -- Martin C. Atkins martin@mca-ltd.com Mission Critical Applications Ltd, U.K.