[9fans] Boot/install help?

[9fans] Boot/install help?

[Marco Shaw]

I'm just planning to install Plan9, but when I use the boot/install
disk, all I get is 'boot from:'.  From that point the install
instructions indicate to just hit enter, but that doesn't work.

If I try 'boot from: fd0', it complains about requiring 'fd0!file'.  So
what is that boot file supposed to be?

The only things I picked were: boot from 1st floppy, linksys etherfast
10/100 (auto/auto), and mouse on com1, other than the defaults.  Perhaps
this floppy boot image is bad?

Thanks,
Marco

[9fans] Re: Boot/install help?

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

Marco Shaw wrote:
> I'm just planning to install Plan9, but when I use the boot/install
> disk, all I get is 'boot from:'.  From that point the install
> instructions indicate to just hit enter, but that doesn't work.

While it is possible that the boot floppy was miswritten,
it is more likely that you have one of the systems on which
Plan 9's installation software has trouble with the floppy
controller.  If you have two floppy drives enabled in your
BIOS, disable the second one and try again.  If that doesn't
work then just keep trying anyway and maybe sooner or later
it will accidentally work.  (Based on my own experience.)