Re: [9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43

["Hongzheng Wang" <wanghz@gmail.com>]

Hi John,

Many thanks.  Your tip, zeroing the partition mannually first, may
answer the strange thing I encountered during installation.  And, I
also prefer to native running Plan9.  But an installation without
workable ethernet is quite unacceptable.  So I might try the method
Eric recommended first.  Alternatively, I will try to config the
previously installed Plan9 to be a  CPU server.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:10 AM,  <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
>
>  First off, Plan 9 does not need to be on the first free partition. I
>  have it installed on the second partition on my laptop and it boots
>  fine.
>  As for the rest of your problems... I suggest getting the latest CD,
>  to start with. Then, under Linux, do this (if your Plan 9 partition
>  is /dev/hda1): "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=1024" to be on the
>  safe side. I've noticed that if you don't zero the disk, even if you
>  reinstall and have the installer format fossil etc., you'll end up
>  with all the old files still on your disk--highly annoying. After
>  you've zeroed the partition, you can try installing again.
>
>  Or, of course, you can try the lguest thing, but I for one like
>  running native.
>
>  Good luck!
>
>  John
>
>



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HZ