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From: Thijs Rosmalen <thijs@blub.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: Help! Installation Problem
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:48:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <394A10DA.C30C292C@blub.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MPG.13b1cc8458a3c3d9989681@news.hiwaay.net>

Terry Bayne wrote:
> When I attempt to boot from the installation floppy I see the following:
>         PBS... Plan 9 from Bell Labs
>         using fd0!dos!plan9.ini
>         Boot Devices: fd0, sdc0, sdd0
>         boot from:
>
> At the prompt I tried specifying the boot drive and file like so:
>         fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz
>
> For which I was rewarded with the message:
>         No such fat partition

I copied 9pcflop.gz to my DOS-partition and then typed
`sdC0!dos!9pcflop.gz' at the `boot from:' prompt. vgadb, pan9.ini, etc.
on the floppy are used though.

Kind regards,	Thijs.
--
"A quarter of a century ago the United Nations Organisation was born
bearing the great hopes of mankind. Alas, in an immoral world it too
has grown up immoral"			   -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn


  reply	other threads:[~2000-06-16 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-16  9:09 [9fans] " Terry Bayne
2000-06-16 11:48 ` Thijs Rosmalen [this message]
2000-06-16 15:10 ` Andrey Mirtchovski

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