From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Chen Xinhe Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <3C3213B1.75B9E49F@flyte.net> Subject: [9fans] Re: Installation Problem Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:20:26 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3db2c95a-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 verloc@flyte.net wrote in message news:<3C3213B1.75B9E49F@flyte.net>... > I'm a having a small problem with my installation, and I was wondering > if anybody out there could help. > > It's a pretty old system (relativly speaking, of course) and that may be > the problem. > > P166 > 16 Megs of ram (this may be the problem, I don't know how much ram is > needed) > > The floppy boots ok until I get to the "root is" prompt, at which I hit > enter and then I get the following : > > root is from (local)[local!/bzroot]: > kfs...boot: nop...no physical memory > no physical memory > no physical memory > ..... > > Yada yada yada. This goes on forever. (well, until I restart it at > least) > > Any ideas? I'd be happy to provide any information needed. > > Jeff Pennington >Dear Jeff Pennington, The requirments of RAM for installation of Plan 9 is 32MB.This size is from the paper 'Installing the Plan 9 Distribution 'at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/install.html,you can see further information about installation.By the way ,you can check the pc hardwares plan 9 suppoted at http://go2.163.com/plan9/ports.html,if can read Chinese paper.more info on web site http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/. Chen Xinhe