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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom drive problems
Date: Mon,  7 Nov 2005 19:06:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0511071606r116248e1w5d83c991c87a3533@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436FE8FA.7060507@moseslake-wa.com>

> I just thought of this... if I have to boot the installer from a floppy,
> will I have to boot the system (once installed) from a floppy as well?
> If 9load or whatever it is can't handle booting from CDROM, will it work
> with my hard drive?

It's very common for 9load to have trouble with
recognizing certain CDROMs.  It has no such trouble
with IDE disks.

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-08  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04  1:48 John Floren
2005-11-04 19:39 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-11-04 19:45   ` John Floren
2005-11-06  7:45     ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-11-07 23:53   ` John Floren
2005-11-08  0:06     ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-11-08  0:44       ` John Floren
2005-11-08  0:58         ` Russ Cox

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