From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:26:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Can't install Plan9 on VMWare Topicbox-Message-UUID: e0ee4c44-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I also made a test doubling each partition's size (exept for nvram) and I > ended up with some error that told me IIRC that for my large disc FAT16 > doesn't work out, so I would have to use FAT32. Trying to increment each > partition lowly (starting from the default size) doesn't help either - > moreover the error can even occur early with larger sizes. BTW the VMWare > image has a size of 800MB (initially the image size was smaller) and the - > default - partition sizes are the following: > 9fat 100 MB > nvram 512 Bytes > fossil 200 MB > swap 100 MB i would imagine 200mb is too small, given the size of the current dist. you don't need to increase the size of 9fat, either and you don't need a swap partition at all. with 800mb i would partition the disk like: 9fat 20mb nvram 512 bytes fossil 700 mb the only thing that usually goes in 9fat is the kernel, 9load and plan9.ini. i use a 10mb 9fat, but the kernels i use are 650k compressed. - erik