[9fans] (no subject)

[9fans] (no subject)

[Chuck Foreman]

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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Re: [9fans] (no subject)

[David Hendricks]

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
>
> --
> Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
>

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

[Federico Benavento]

hola,

On 9/12/06, Chuck Foreman <chuckf@arcor.de> wrote:

> 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?

this is how I always do it, I put the .iso in a fat32 partition, there
is no magic
about it, the installer knows how to do it, you get prompts, in one you choose
the media (the fat32 partition) in other you browse to the dir where
the .iso is located.

-- 
Federico G. Benavento

[9fans] Boot CD / Controller recognition

[chuckf]

 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
> >
> > --
> > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
> >
>