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From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Another Newbie question !
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 03:09:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020520030937.A26209@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43L0.0205200252400.6677-100000@viking.core.opaquenetworks.net>; from ganesh@opaquenetworks.com on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:56:19AM -0500

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:56:19AM -0500, Ganesh Kumar wrote:
>  I am a newbie to Plan9.When I created the boot disk and started
> downloading,the download stops at 99% ( I use windows) and says insert a
> disk of higher capacity.

Are you using rawrite or something similar to copy the disk image?
You can't just copy the file to a FAT-formatted disk.

> I used a Phillips 1.44 MB disk.But it say only 1.30MB found.

> Is it possible to use a splitter and split the file? If I do that,how do I
> boot from that ?

You don't want to do that ;-)


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-20  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-19  9:55 kjn9
2002-05-19 15:42 ` [9fans] Newbie questions on command history and typo correction Dean Prichard
2002-05-20  7:56   ` [9fans] Another Newbie question ! Ganesh Kumar
2002-05-20  7:09     ` William Josephson [this message]
2002-05-20  8:25       ` Ganesh Kumar

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