From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:46:03 +0900 From: "Navin Johnson" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Bootsetup will not create floppy In-Reply-To: <20071209110107.GA1171@localhost.locahost.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071209110107.GA1171@localhost.locahost.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 13485492-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Dec 9, 2007 8:01 PM, Alasdair Reed wrote: > > I have successfully (?) installed plan 9 from the Live/installation CD . > However Bootsetup will not create a boot floppy. > Afer inserting a floppy in the drive and pressing 'enter' I get the following error message: > > ls /dev/sd0/cdboot '/dev/sdD0' file does not exist > will not format non-floppy disk /dev/sdD0/cdboot > > My CD drive is sdC1 (primary slave) . So I guess that Bootsetup is unable to find the source file it needs to create the floppy . > Is this assessment of the problem correct? Yes. > If so, > How do I let Bootsetup know where my CD drive is? It is hardcoded, so your current options are: 1) download and use a boot floppy from Bell Labs[1] site, or 2) move your CD to another IDE cable (i.e. primary master on another cable) and go through the installation process again. Regards, Navin [1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.flp.gz