From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: <20071211122105.GA2145@localhost.locahost.net> References: <20071211122105.GA2145@localhost.locahost.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Joshua Wood Subject: Re: [9fans] Bootsetup will not create floppy Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:21:24 -0800 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 153d6512-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> Seems like there would be an option number: >> >> 3) Make a boot floppy, as discussed in update(8) and esp. the >> EXAMPLES subhead in prep(8). >> My advice above is not directly useful to you. As Eric pointed out, 9load + 9pcf.gz won't fit together on a 1.44MB floppy. I just didn't see his message before sending mine, and hadn't thought about putting a fossil kernel on a floppy. My apologies for the misdirection. As Erik also notes, fossil systems generally boot not from floppy, but from the 9fat partition on a hard disk. > > Hi, CD drive is now sdD0, installed again but got the same error > message on attempting to create boot floppy. > > Downloaded plan9.flp.gz, on attempting to decompress got the > following error: > gunzip: data stream error > gunzip: plan9.flp.gz: uncompress failed > > Is the file on the server corrupt, or am I doing something wrong > (again!). Plan9.flp.gz is an installer image -- basically what you already have on the bootable CD. I don't think it's appropriate for what you're trying to do, and I didn't recommend it. That said, while gnu gzip may not open it, plan9 gzip(1) will (from your live cd); windows 7zip will too, by my test. So I don't believe it's corrupt on the server. > One last thing, perhaps I should have mentioned. Plan 9 (on the > hard disk) is installed in the last 6 GB of a 40 GB disk, behind > Windows XP on NTFS, Windows is the active partition. That's rather pertinent. There are messages in the list archives about dual-booting; I think /n/sources/contrib/rsc/mbr.bootmgr, ``Smart Boot Manager,'' might help. I can't say I've tried it myself, beyond just now checking that it brings up a partition selection screen on boot, once installed as the mbr on a disk. -- Josh