From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:40:46 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6847ab50-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri Jun 28 12:27:26 EDT 2013, silicon.penguin67@gmail.com wrote: > I've downloaded the plan9.iso image twice from > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html > > Once about two weeks ago, once today. Both times I extracted the > plan9.iso.bz2 file to plan9.iso. Both times I burned the image to a > cd, and both times the program(k3b) told me the image wasn't the same > size as the header suggests?? > > Upon trying to boot off the cd I get this: > > boot from cd : > PBSR...EI > _ <----- blinking cursor these are two, unrelated issues. the .iso size issue should not be a big deal. there appears to be some accounting that's off for cd-roms in the plan 9 iso burning software. (mk9660(8)). the new boot process can sometimes fail on new hardware. you might try the 9atom iso hget http://ftp.9atom.org/other/9atom.iso.bz2 this iso uses the traditional el-torito method. unfortunately, the installer is size-constrained (1.44MB) and doesn't support usb. while the image hget http://ftp.9atom.org/other/9atom.nboot.iso.bz2 has the new installer which uses bios to access the hard drive without el-torito emulation, and thus has no size constraints. while it does fail on more hardware, it does support usb during the install. the images http://ftp.9atom.org/other/+9atom.nboot.iso.bz2 http://ftp.9atom.org/other/+9atom.nboot.iso.bz2 are untested, and shouldn't be used unless you wish to verify they work. if you do, please let me know offlist what the results are. i keep forgetting to do this. - erik