From: Glenn Becker <burningc@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: DIST - Plan 9 From Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] installation procedure question
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:28:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0702141610060.26167@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
Hi -
I've cast longing looks at Plan9 from afar for some time. Recently
purchased a CD/DVD burner and created a boot/install disc to play with,
but am trying to proceed cautiously before installing ...
While searching for info on how to get this to work with the grub
bootloader, I found this on a forum:
"As for installing it to a drive with other OSs and/or data. Do so with
caution and understanding. Much like BSD and solaris, it messes with the
drives partition table CHS/LBA values. Unlike some nux flavors that do
this, it seems to affect all partitions, not just its own."
Cd anyone comment on this or, even better, suggest a way to avoid this
happening if true? I am thinking of installing onto a Dell PIII laptop
with 6 other OSs currently on it. I wanted to put Plan 9 on the final
primary partition on the drive and continue to use Grub as a bootloader.
Also the "Installation instructions" on the wiki list four boot methods,
none of which seem to apply ... should I simply not run bootsetup, then?
Thanks,
Glenn Becker
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Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org
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next reply other threads:[~2007-02-14 16:28 UTC|newest]
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2007-02-14 16:28 Glenn Becker [this message]
2007-02-16 11:17 ` Alberto Cortés
2007-02-14 16:41 Brian L.Stuart
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