From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:09:12 +0800 From: "Hongzheng Wang" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43 In-Reply-To: <643094a4bf94a16f15d8ff7bddfccff1@csplan9.rit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <643094a4bf94a16f15d8ff7bddfccff1@csplan9.rit.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c7866f2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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, 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 > > -- HZ