From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:28:55 +0000 From: Glenn Becker To: DIST - Plan 9 From Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: [9fans] installation procedure question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 10bbb4ae-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 +-----------------------------------------------------+ Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org +-----------------------------------------------------+