From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:47:31 -0600 From: "David Hendricks" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: b1590232-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I've been having a similar issue with the latest install CD where I can boot from the CD but it is not recognzied. Just out of curiosity, could you try an older one and see what happens? I think my "working" bootable image is from January '04. On 9/12/06, Chuck Foreman wrote: > Hi, > > How to install: > My Laptop won't allow both a CD and a floppy drive. The CD controller > is somehow not recognized despite booting from the CD! It recognizes > the floppy drive despite it not being there... Anyway... I can use use the > floppy drive to boot from for the install. I need to get some feedback > regarding the order of install. > > Since I can't store the image on CD and use the floppy at the same time; > > Is there any advantage to using cfdisk to set the available primary > partition > for Plan 9 in advance of the floppy install? > What happens when it finds an existing Plan 9 partition? > Will/would the "partdisk" step do this "automatically" ie > prompting for the necessary partitions? > > If I interrupted the install at that point (after the partitioning > but prior to loading the image)could I theoretically put/copy > the Plan9.iso image into the Plan 9 partition.. is there any benefit to > that? > > > Should I put the image somewhere on the HDD (a Primary Fat32, Primary > F-BSD, an log/ext linux reiserfs)and mount this at that stage in the > install? > Should I wait and see what the install will prompt for available media.. > interrupt > if necessary..copy the media there) and resume the install? > > > Thanks > > Taking it slowly and deliberatly > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ >