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Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 21:30:55 -0400
From: Ishwar Rattan <ishwar@pali.cps.cmich.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a litle note on my dead vmware system
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With CD-ROM connected as IDE1:0, I got stuck at
..
Distribution disk [no default]: /dev/sdD0/data
9660srv 1707: serving /srv/9660
mount: mount /n/distmedia: I/O read error
Distribution disk [no default]
..
the install process did list /dev/sdD0/data as 9660 iso image too??

-ishwar


On Wed, 19 May 2004, Russ Cox wrote:

> > Is one supposed to boot using a floppy image and cdrom connected to
> > plan9.iso file?
>
> You can do it with just the CD-ROM.
> Connect the CD-ROM as IDE1:0 to make your life easiest.
> I just did this a few days ago, I'm pretty sure it works.
>
> Russ
>