From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220701290708v4b939eceh5b0511f709da95df@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:08:03 -0500 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] floppy install? In-Reply-To: <536c5d325516bebf22b4ff5b8ab38da6@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <324fccf0701290647q17dcf7cbu7586157e9114ac99@mail.gmail.com> <536c5d325516bebf22b4ff5b8ab38da6@coraid.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0958c49a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 1/29/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > i suppose you could avoid this step by mounting the distribution from cd. > > - erik > > On Mon Jan 29 09:48:29 EST 2007, osborne6@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi - > > I have a oldish, small form factor workstation (a Toshiba Equium 7100 > > to be exact, 4GB hard drive, 64MB ram, network card recognized) with > > no CD drive, and I've attempted to install via floppy and I get as far > > as the download portion of the install, and then the download craps > > out with > > > > (download): null list in concatenation > > > > And then thinks it's ready for mounting the dist. > > > > Any suggestions, ideas? > > > > Thanks in advance! > Erik, he could avoid this step by mounting the distribution from cd if you were to, say, send him a CDROM drive. Otherwise, when he says it doesn't have a drive, that would mean he can't mount the cd. I've had this same problem myself. Is it one of those "Oh, not worth fixing, everyone should be booting from CD anyway" problems (known about but not going to be fixed, ever), or what? John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn