From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <324fccf0701290749q1d428d38pfb12b0ebbc3da2db@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:49:00 -0600 From: "John Osborne" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] floppy install? In-Reply-To: <23ee901c0b19624231554cac90dc7aa7@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <324fccf0701290717x652a2f4bne6711fe1921f24a2@mail.gmail.com> <23ee901c0b19624231554cac90dc7aa7@coraid.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 09747bd6-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 > -- John Osborne osborne6@ieee.org/osborne6@gmail.com/jro@freeshell.org