From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <2e7cc85343187d7d28a4a1f74dce408d@snellwilcox.com> From: "Steve Simon" Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:44:48 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] CD install help In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: aa7ae114-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Given these choices I would expect you to pick /dev/sdD0/data Did you enter the path to the disk exactly '/dev/sdD0/data' ? >>From my reading of the code I think you will get this cannot happen error message if you enter a device which is not one of those listed. the devices: /dev/sdC0/9fat /dev/sdC0/data /dev/sdC0/fossil /dev/sdC0/nvram /dev/sdC0/swap are those you just created on your disk. /dev/sdD0/cdboot is the bootstrap psudo-floppy on the CDROM that allows it to be a boot device. /dev/sdD0/data is the filesystem that conatins the plan9 filesystem image (assuming you are booting from the bootable iso distribution). Perhaps you have an old distribution image? I did exactly this yesterday and it all went faultlessly. -Steve