[9fans] Help needed installing from CD

[9fans] Help needed installing from CD

[Adrian Tritschler]

I've been trying to install plan9 to an IBM 300PL machine, after
fiddling with the vgadb file I've got the display to come up, albeit
with a great big ugly mouse pointer that seems to include the pointer
plus a 64x64 block of random pixels.

anyway...

I downloaded plan9.9gz and have written it to a CD in a directory
"plan9"

With the CD in the destination machine, I boot from the install
floppy, when it gets to the point where I can pick a distribution
archive, I select "local" and it finds /dev/sdD0/data (iso9660 cdrom)
I then enter that and select "browse"

I can cd to /plan9, lc shows the file, then exit and select "unpack"

I get the error message
archfs: reading archive: bad format
wrap/inst: no such package found
cp: can't create /n/kfs/lib/vgadb: file does not exist

and back I go to choose "unpack"

How do I install from CD?

        thanks,
                Adrian

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