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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Can't install on VirtualPC
Date: Sat,  1 Apr 2006 23:04:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C367524-BFB8-4093-B007-0B05CD164AC1@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D05054E3-C988-40CA-9AE2-FB2C711B7F9F@nifty.com>

VPC can't boot the installation CD image.  I never did figure out
why.  You need to download the floppy boot image, and boot with both
it and the CD image attached.  After the install is complete you can
toss the floppy image.

--lyndon


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-02  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-02  6:50 Moroo Jun
2006-04-02  7:04 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2006-04-02 18:58   ` Dan Cross
2006-04-03 13:11     ` Moroo Jun
2006-04-03 13:41       ` Anthony Sorace

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