From: John Floren <jfloren@moseslake-wa.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom drive problems
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:44:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <436FF505.6070003@moseslake-wa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0511071606r116248e1w5d83c991c87a3533@mail.gmail.com>
Russ Cox wrote:
>>I just thought of this... if I have to boot the installer from a floppy,
>>will I have to boot the system (once installed) from a floppy as well?
>>If 9load or whatever it is can't handle booting from CDROM, will it work
>>with my hard drive?
>
>
> It's very common for 9load to have trouble with
> recognizing certain CDROMs. It has no such trouble
> with IDE disks.
>
> Russ
>
> .
>
It has been unable to recognize either of the two CDROM drives I've
tried... could it be that my IDE controller is the problem?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-08 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-04 1:48 John Floren
2005-11-04 19:39 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-11-04 19:45 ` John Floren
2005-11-06 7:45 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-11-07 23:53 ` John Floren
2005-11-08 0:06 ` Russ Cox
2005-11-08 0:44 ` John Floren [this message]
2005-11-08 0:58 ` Russ Cox
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