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
>