From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: From: Gorka Guardiola Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <99100159-30FB-4811-87FD-7F960CA7F948@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:12:33 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image Topicbox-Message-UUID: 685514f2-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > these are two, unrelated issues. >=20 > the .iso size issue should not be a big deal. there appears to be some > accounting that's off for cd-roms in the plan 9 iso burning software. > (mk9660(8)). >=20 Wouldn't surprise me, but it seems to work for me. If anyone has a more deta= iled explanation of what is wrong where, I'll take a look at it. >=20 > this iso uses the traditional el-torito method. unfortunately, > the installer is size-constrained (1.44MB) and doesn't support usb. >=20 > while the image >=20 > hget http://ftp.9atom.org/other/9atom.nboot.iso.bz2 >=20 > has the new installer which uses bios to access the hard drive > without el-torito emulation, and thus has no size constraints. > while it does fail on more hardware, it does support usb during > the install. I don't know much about how 9atom works, but the new plan 9 loader uses el-t= orito, but version 3 which lets you access the whole cd as an lba device. G.