From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:06:24 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom drive problems In-Reply-To: <436FE8FA.7060507@moseslake-wa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <436ABDF6.1020901@moseslake-wa.com> <126a2f7d0511041139q625cb2fej47720e7ea5dbce4e@mail.gmail.com> <436FE8FA.7060507@moseslake-wa.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a8987b60-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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