[9fans] Boot CD / Controller recognition

[chuckf@arcor.de]

 David Hendricks,

I'll happily try another image ! Where would I find an earlier image? Is there a repository somewhere?

Thanks

----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     David Hendricks <david.hendricks@gmail.com>
An:      Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Datum:   12.09.2006 22:47
Betreff: Re: [9fans] (no subject)

> I've been having a similar issue with the latest install CD where I
> can boot from the CD but it is not recognzied. Just out of curiosity,
> could you try an older one and see what happens? I think my "working"
> bootable image is from January '04.
> 
> On 9/12/06, Chuck Foreman <chuckf@arcor.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How to install:
> > My Laptop won't allow both a CD and a floppy drive. The CD controller
> > is somehow not recognized despite booting from the CD! It recognizes
> > the floppy drive despite it not being there... Anyway... I can use use
> the
> > floppy drive to boot from for the install. I need to get some feedback
> > regarding the order of install.
> >
> > Since I can't store the image on CD and use the floppy at the same time;
> >
> > Is there any advantage to using cfdisk to set the available primary
> > partition
> > for Plan 9 in advance of the floppy install?
> > What happens when it finds an existing Plan 9 partition?
> > Will/would the "partdisk" step do this "automatically" ie
> > prompting for the necessary partitions?
> >
> > If I interrupted the install at that point (after the partitioning
> > but prior to loading the image)could I theoretically put/copy
> > the Plan9.iso image into the Plan 9 partition.. is there any benefit to
> > that?
> >
> >
> > Should I put the image somewhere on the HDD (a Primary Fat32, Primary
> > F-BSD, an log/ext linux reiserfs)and mount this at that stage in the
> > install?
> > Should I wait and see what the install will prompt for available media..
> > interrupt
> > if necessary..copy the media there) and resume the install?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Taking it slowly and deliberatly
> >
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