Re: [9fans] floppy install?

["John Osborne" <osborne6@gmail.com>]

It's not that the machine in question doesn't see the CD drive, it
just doesn't have a CD drive.  The install from floppy works up to the
point where it is trying to download the archive.  I just need a way
to get the archive via the floppy, keeping in mind this machine has no
CD drive whatsoever.  Hopefully I'll have time tonight to maybe do one
of two things, 1.) pull the drive from the machine and put the bzip-ed
cd image on the fat partition via my linux box, or 2.) use some other
non plan9 boot floppy to mount the fat partition and
ftp/grab-some-other-way the bzip-ed cd image from the linux box and
save it to the fat partition.

Just to clarify, the floppy install worked up to the point of
downloading the archive.  I have the hard disk fully partitioned.

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone!

On 1/29/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> at the risk of missing the point again, what do you mean by "not work"?
> do you mean, the machine won't boot from the machine or do you mean
> it just doesn't see the cd?
>
> i have 2 440MX/BX  motherboards that will not boot from cd.
> however, once booted via the floppy, i can mount the cd just fine.
> i don't know if this is the case for you.
>
> hope this helps,
> - erik
>


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