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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:45:08 +0200
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Subject: [9fans] Re: Help a poor man out - poor man's installation.
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>If you have anough disk to generate a FAT partition to temporarly hold
>the unzip'ed ISO then put it there - or maybe put a spare hard disk in
>box temporarly.
>
>You should then be able to use the boot/install floppy image which is on
the
>same page as the ISO at the bell-labs site to start the installer.
>
>It will offer the devices where it thinks the ISO should live and you
can
>chose your FAT partition; and you are off...
>
>Don't worry if it takes a long time it often doesn't use DMA during
install
>but you can turn that on later. Alsi I would suggest you do a fossil
only
>install for now unless you want to build a proper fileserver, again you
>can convert later.
>
>-Steve
I already tried it like so:
hda1 linux swap
hda2 bootable fat32 with grub4dos
hda3 Freesco Linux
I put the plan9.iso on hda2 and booted the floppy and got:
Boot device: fd0
boot from:
so I entered :
boot from: sdC1!plan9.iso
What did I do wrong ?
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>
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>
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>
>Don't worry if it takes a l=
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>
>-Steve
I already tried it like so:
hda1 =
linux swap
hda2 bootable fat32 with grub4dos
hda3 Freesco Linux
I put the plan9.iso on hda2 and booted the floppy and got:
Boot device=
: fd0
boot from:
so I entered :
boot from: sdC1!plan9.iso
<=
br>What did I do wrong ?
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