Re: [9fans] the old floppy set

[michael block <michaelmuffin@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:23, John Floren<slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, first note that I didn't have any luck with QEMU, I had to install
> on an actual 486.

i have the same error with both qemu and period hardware. i'm running
qemu-8.2.0 and a pentium 266MHz laptop. on the laptop both my freedos
partition and space for 2e are near the end of a 20G disk. same for
qemu but with a 200M hda file. was your qemu problem similar to mine?

> I booted the FreeDOS disk and created a small partition (something
> like 50 MB) on the hard disk, leaving the rest unpartitioned. Then I
> installed FreeDOS to the small partition and started the Plan 9
> installation.

yep, did the same


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:26, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> i don't know
> what versions of fat 2e supported, but i would imagine restricting
> oneself to fat16 (and not fat16 lba) would be safest.

i used fat16, i think lba. i figured plan 9 would be smart enough to
deal with lba and large disks, but wikipedia tells me that 1995 was
sort of a chs-lba transition period, so perhaps i was wrong. i won't
be able to experiment with chs on the laptop as it has a large disk
with freebsd filling it except for the very end