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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:35:45 +0200
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Subject: [9fans] latest install floppy
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I have a feeling the latest Plan 9 install floppy is broken.  I have
attempted to use it for a fresh installation and with two different
disk drives it reported (a) that it found no MBR and (b) an I/O error
(error 68, in sector 0.446 or some such) when attempting to write the
MBR.

These were mid-capacity (4Gig and 8Gig, approximately) IDE drives
previously installed with Windows 98 (I know that's not English,
really, but I think it says what I want it to).

I suspect 9pcflop, as my somewhat older 9pcdisk has no such
difficulties.  If anyone has installed off the floppy recently, please
let me know so I'll look for a different source for my woes.

++L