From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 10:14:32 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Strange Plan9 Reinstallation Phenomonon In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8da6e9fc-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > The `copy distribution' part went like lightning > and when I rebooted, not only did I have Plan9, but I had the same > setup I had a couple days before just before the BSD installation. > > I've been using the Plan 9 for a little while now, and it seems to be > working. My question is do you think I can expect this to work, or is > this a real fluke? I had actually done quite a bit with the FreeBSD: > building from sources and installing quite a few ports. I'd run a check on the file system, but it's quite possible. Plan 9 is small, and it's likely that your BSD setup was carefully using only a few blocks from each cylinder group and completely missed it. Russ