Re: [9fans] Bootsetup will not create floppy

[Alasdair Reed <alasdair@iprimus.com.au>]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 05:11:55AM -0800, Joshua Wood wrote:
> >It is hardcoded, so your current options are:
> >1) download and use a boot floppy from Bell Labs[1] site, or
> >2) move your CD to another IDE cable (i.e. primary master on another
> >cable) and go through the installation process again.
> >
> 
> Seems like there would be an option number:
> 
> 3) Make a boot floppy, as discussed in update(8) and esp. the  
> EXAMPLES subhead in prep(8).
> 
> 
> >
> >[1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.flp.gz
> 
> 
> --
> Josh
> 
>

Hi, CD drive is now sdD0, installed again but got the same error message on attempting to create boot floppy.

Downloaded plan9.flp.gz, on attempting to decompress got the following error:
gunzip: data stream error
gunzip: plan9.flp.gz: uncompress failed

this was uncompressing in NetBSD 

tried several more freshly downloaded files, all with same result. Tried Same on windows got "crc error"
Is the file on the server corrupt, or am I doing something wrong (again!).
" 3) Make a boot floppy, as discussed in update(8) and esp. the
 EXAMPLES subhead in prep(8)."
 
disk/format -b /386/pbs -df /dev/fd0disk \
/386/9load /tmp/plan9.ini /386/9pcf.gz

Returned the message:

add 9load at clust 2 
format:open /tmp/plan9.ini: '/tmp/plan9.ini' file does not exist

Not bad, half way there!! I guess the live CD doesn't place a copy of plan9.ini there ? Where do I find it to copy it to tmp? 

One last thing, perhaps I should have mentioned. Plan 9 (on the hard disk) is installed in the last 6 GB of a 40 GB disk, behind Windows XP on NTFS, Windows is the active partition.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Regards,

Alasdair