Re: [9fans] plan9 instalation CD

[Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>]

what's your cd-rom connected as?  the install tries

sdD0!dos!9pcflop.gz

sdC is primary, sdD is secondary, 0 is master, 1 is slave.

russ


On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 13:38:59 -0200, Gabriel Cosentino de Barros
<aut_gbarros@uolinc.com> wrote:
>  
> 
> I've downloaded the plan9 instalation CD and booted a vmWare virtual machine
> using that .iso as a cd rom media. 
> 
> All went fine. It booted and i could install plan9 and even see the liveCD
> stuff. 
> 
> Then, to not be locked in the 30-day vmWare, i went to burn that CD and
> install in dual boot. 
> 
> First i burned it with Nero 6. I booted the computer, and it said something
> about booting a 2.88MB floppy image. then ended up with the folowing lines
> (may be diferent since i haven't wrote down all the text): 
> 
> Available boot devices: fd0 
> what device to use: <i wrote fd0> 
> Must use device!file 
> what device to use: <i wrote fd0!plan9> 
> not found (ok, this text was very diferent but the idea was that :) 
> what device to use: <i wrote fd0!386/9load> 
> not found 
>  
> 
> When i first instaled in vmWare, it haven't outputed the "2.88MB floppy"
> thingy, and started a menu with 1. install, 2. run from cd... 
> 
> My first tought was that nero messed up with the image (I recall the
> installer, in vmWare, showing me that there were 2 tracks on the CD ROM,
> wich was the iso. and nero only wrote one track from that same iso) so i
> wasted another media burning the .iso with alchool120%. but i've got the
> same results. 
> 
> Any ideia what i'm doing wrong? or the boot sequence is suposed to behave
> like that (detecting vmWare, etc)? 
>  
> 
> Thanks, 
> Ganbriel