From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 07:05:45 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] IBM X40 installation - long description In-Reply-To: <20070702073636.GZ3938@wasi.karlov.mff.cuni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8efa9e20-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > - here the installer asks about some file, so I satisfy this demand > by giving !sdC0!dos!9pcflop.gz i think you mean "sdC0!dos!9pcflop.gz". > - So I hit ctrl-alt-del nad reboot to linux. Here I mount /dev/hda2 > as plan9 partition and copy plan9.iso.bz2 to it. Reboot again and > start plan9 installatio. Reboot once again and boot using usb-cdrom you will need two partitions to boot plan 9. the dos partion can be about 10mb since all you need in this partition is a pbs, 9load, plan9.ini and kernel. the plan9 partition should be at least 300mb. all normal plan 9 files go in this partition. i believe you can create these partitions in advance and just tell the partitioning step of the installer to use them. or you can leave some unpartitioned space and let the installer find it. this man page may be helpful http://cm.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/prep hope this helps - erik