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From: Alasdair Reed <alasdair@iprimus.com.au>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Bootsetup will not create floppy
Date: Sun,  9 Dec 2007 22:01:07 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071209110107.GA1171@localhost.locahost.net> (raw)

Hi, 

I have successfully (?) installed plan 9 from the Live/installation CD . 
However Bootsetup will not create a boot floppy. 
Afer inserting  a floppy in the drive and pressing 'enter' I get the following error message:

ls /dev/sd0/cdboot '/dev/sdD0' file does not exist
will not format non-floppy disk /dev/sdD0/cdboot

My CD drive is sdC1 (primary slave) . So I guess that Bootsetup is unable to find the source file it needs to create the floppy . 
Is this assessment of the problem correct? 
If so,
How do I let Bootsetup know where my CD drive is? 

Or if that is not possible, is there a way to create a boot floppy from the Live CD?
Or some other source for a boot floppy?

Thanks,

Regards,

Alasdair


             reply	other threads:[~2007-12-09 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-09 11:01 Alasdair Reed [this message]
2007-12-09 12:46 ` Navin Johnson
2007-12-09 13:09   ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-09 13:11 Joshua Wood
2007-12-11 12:21 ` Alasdair Reed
2007-12-11 15:21   ` Joshua Wood

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