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Subject: Re: [9fans] installing Plan 9 under Microsoft's free Virtual PC?
From: "Sascha Retzki" <sretzki@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:32:27 +0200
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> For the record, I got past the MBR problem by running under Windows XP
> (Not sure if that's necessary) and choosing the virtual file system as
> the boot device.
>
> Although I'm now in the 9660srv command, and it is unable to find the
> distribution on the CD. Is this an indication of a bad CD image? When
> I cd to various folders and lc I get an I/O Read Error. I can see the
> bootdisk.img in this folder.
>

Yes that sounds like a broken disk or similar. Btw, basicly the distribution is in /, so you can just browse to / and exit (and you end up in / when you start 'browsing') - but iirc you cannot just enter / because there is a mountpoint in front. (imho)

So the fastest method of selecting the distribution is to 'browse' and imedietly exit the little-shell.

> Thanks,
> Andrew