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From: Eldanen <eldanen@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD
Date: Thu,  1 Nov 2007 20:30:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e42b9de40711011730v626a18c9jca5ce7b5fb2ecf04@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83C5C00A-2076-4B5E-B796-C28472DB9FEF@utopian.net>

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The non-existant floppy is gone from the BIOS.  It was set to off before I
started trying to boot the plan9 CD.

On 11/1/07, Joshua Wood <josh@utopian.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Hehe.  There is no floppy drive.  But thanks for all the help
> > you've given
> > me.
>
> In my experience, that is precisely the reason why you should follow
> erik's suggestion and disable that non-existent floppy in bios.
>
> More to the point, you can boot with an older iso image; I've been
> using my 10/12 burn for exactly that purpose. Once you have a plan 9
> system up, you have access to pull(1) and sourcesdump/yyyy/mmdd/
> plan9/386/9load to do your testing of the (several, lately) new 9load
> on your hardware, and a bootable cd with a known-good 9load when you
> fail.
>
> My follow-on question for the list based on my experience with that
> general procedure is: Is there anywhere to get an old iso image for
> someone in Eldanen's situation? (That is, neither an old burn to fall
> back on nor an existing plan9 machine to use to get an old 9load from
> sourcesdump to make a bootstrap for his new machine?)
>
> --
> josh
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-02  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20071101232609.8A2185C066@mail.cse.psu.edu>
2007-11-02  0:15 ` Joshua Wood
2007-11-02  0:30   ` Eldanen [this message]
2007-11-02  9:37   ` cej
2007-11-01 21:46 Eldanen
2007-11-01 21:53 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01 21:55   ` Eldanen
2007-11-01 22:16     ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01 22:20       ` Eldanen
2007-11-01 22:49         ` Eldanen
2007-11-01 23:22           ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01 23:23             ` Eldanen
2007-11-01 23:25               ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-02 10:56 ` Sander van Dijk
2007-11-02 16:35   ` Eldanen
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2004-03-01 10:35 [9fans] Problems booting " Alexander Serkov

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