Hello 9fans,
I'm trying to install plan9 without the aid of a CD-Drive at all, but the documents on the subject and the 9fans archive were too sketchy for a poor guy like me ;-)
This is the specs:
Intel Pentium 100, 32mb Ram, MoBo shuttle hot555 Intel 430tx triron, Serial Mouse.
PCI Ethernet controller: Realtek 8139 (rev 16).
PCI Sound Galaxy Nova 16 Extra II-3D - using AZT-2316/R Chipset - FCC-ID:I38-MMSN846 SoundCard.
IDE Primary Master: Dualboot Freesco Linux ext2 and maybe Plan9 To be ?
IDE Secondary Master: Defunct BTC CDROM 24x - only good for music cds :-)
exempli gratia::
1. I can install Windows 98 by fdisk another partition and format to FAT32 through a floppy, sys a: c:, and then use Freesco to mount it and the build in ftp server to copy the installation files to.
2. I can install Damn Small Linux by mounting the ISO through loopback, copying the necessary files including isolinux and setting grub as so:
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# Damn Small Linux Frugal
title Frugal DSL on hda1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/isolinux/linux24 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us noapm vga=normal nomce noacpi quiet nopcmcia nodhcp noscsi nofirewire noagp odma
initrd /boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
boot
[/CODE]
So what should be done with plan 9 ?
I'm thinking of something similar to DSL - I can use freesco to mount it, but to what fs I need to format the target partition ?
How to set Grub to work ?
- pls be specific, and tell me were to get necessary files if their are any - like I got the minirt24.gz, linux24, and isolinux from the DSL ISO.
Maybe a completely new and different method ? a plan9 floppy to do a network install ? I'm open to suggestion...
If deemed necessary I can offer an SSH connection to that machine for the more astute 9fun putty user ;-)
Thanks !!!
Ram Kromberg
ramkromberg@mail.com
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