Re: [9fans] Building a Floppy Disk

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Fri Dec 14 04:54:54 EST 2007, rpangrazio@gmail.com wrote:
> I have been trying to build a custom boot disk. I have a computer with
> the intel 945g chipset, it seems that if I modify sdata.c it will
> recognize the sata bus. The problem I have is that when it builds the
> root image for the floppy it can't find several programs, i.e touch lc
> and many others. I have looked at the posts in this group, but it
> seems that they are out of date or don't address this issue. What do i
> have to build in order for the floppy to be built correctly.
> 
> Thanks
> Bob

if you alter your bios settings to set the sata mode to enhanced/ahci,
plan 9 should boot directly from livecd on your machine.

something's amiss if touch and lc are missing.  they are part of the
distribution.

nonetheless, i'm not sure that it's possible to build a floppy anymore
9pcf.gz is awful big.

- erik