* [9fans] floppy install?
@ 2007-01-29 14:47 John Osborne
2007-01-29 14:55 ` erik quanstrom
2007-01-29 15:12 ` Gabriel Diaz
0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: John Osborne @ 2007-01-29 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Hi -
I have a oldish, small form factor workstation (a Toshiba Equium 7100
to be exact, 4GB hard drive, 64MB ram, network card recognized) with
no CD drive, and I've attempted to install via floppy and I get as far
as the download portion of the install, and then the download craps
out with
(download): null list in concatenation
And then thinks it's ready for mounting the dist.
Any suggestions, ideas?
Thanks in advance!
--
John Osborne
osborne6@ieee.org/osborne6@gmail.com/jro@freeshell.org
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* Re: [9fans] floppy install?
2007-01-29 14:47 [9fans] floppy install? John Osborne
@ 2007-01-29 14:55 ` erik quanstrom
2007-01-29 15:08 ` John Floren
2007-01-29 15:17 ` John Osborne
2007-01-29 15:12 ` Gabriel Diaz
1 sibling, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: erik quanstrom @ 2007-01-29 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
i suppose you could avoid this step by mounting the distribution from cd.
- erik
On Mon Jan 29 09:48:29 EST 2007, osborne6@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi -
> I have a oldish, small form factor workstation (a Toshiba Equium 7100
> to be exact, 4GB hard drive, 64MB ram, network card recognized) with
> no CD drive, and I've attempted to install via floppy and I get as far
> as the download portion of the install, and then the download craps
> out with
>
> (download): null list in concatenation
>
> And then thinks it's ready for mounting the dist.
>
> Any suggestions, ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance!
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* Re: [9fans] floppy install?
2007-01-29 14:55 ` erik quanstrom
@ 2007-01-29 15:08 ` John Floren
2007-01-29 15:24 ` erik quanstrom
2007-01-29 15:17 ` John Osborne
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: John Floren @ 2007-01-29 15:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On 1/29/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> i suppose you could avoid this step by mounting the distribution from cd.
>
> - erik
>
> On Mon Jan 29 09:48:29 EST 2007, osborne6@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi -
> > I have a oldish, small form factor workstation (a Toshiba Equium 7100
> > to be exact, 4GB hard drive, 64MB ram, network card recognized) with
> > no CD drive, and I've attempted to install via floppy and I get as far
> > as the download portion of the install, and then the download craps
> > out with
> >
> > (download): null list in concatenation
> >
> > And then thinks it's ready for mounting the dist.
> >
> > Any suggestions, ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
Erik, he could avoid this step by mounting the distribution from cd if
you were to, say, send him a CDROM drive. Otherwise, when he says it
doesn't have a drive, that would mean he can't mount the cd.
I've had this same problem myself. Is it one of those "Oh, not worth
fixing, everyone should be booting from CD anyway" problems (known
about but not going to be fixed, ever), or what?
John
--
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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* Re: [9fans] floppy install?
2007-01-29 14:55 ` erik quanstrom
2007-01-29 15:08 ` John Floren
@ 2007-01-29 15:17 ` John Osborne
2007-01-29 15:28 ` erik quanstrom
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: John Osborne @ 2007-01-29 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
That would be nice, and I would have tried that first, but as I
mentioned below, the machine in question doesn't have a CD drive, and
to make matters worse, when I've tried to connect a CD drive to it in
the past, the CD drive doesn't seem to work with this machine.
Now, in the installation document on the wiki, it says the archive can
be pulled from a bzip-ed cd image or uncompressed cd image. I'm
assuming that I could pull the disk (or somehow copy the image over)
onto the fat partition and install that way -- anyone else try that
recently?
On 1/29/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> i suppose you could avoid this step by mounting the distribution from cd.
>
> - erik
>
> On Mon Jan 29 09:48:29 EST 2007, osborne6@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi -
> > I have a oldish, small form factor workstation (a Toshiba Equium 7100
> > to be exact, 4GB hard drive, 64MB ram, network card recognized) with
> > no CD drive, and I've attempted to install via floppy and I get as far
> > as the download portion of the install, and then the download craps
> > out with
> >
> > (download): null list in concatenation
> >
> > And then thinks it's ready for mounting the dist.
> >
> > Any suggestions, ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
--
John Osborne
osborne6@ieee.org/osborne6@gmail.com/jro@freeshell.org
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* Re: [9fans] floppy install?
2007-01-29 15:17 ` John Osborne
@ 2007-01-29 15:28 ` erik quanstrom
2007-01-29 15:49 ` John Osborne
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: erik quanstrom @ 2007-01-29 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
at the risk of missing the point again, what do you mean by "not work"?
do you mean, the machine won't boot from the machine or do you mean
it just doesn't see the cd?
i have 2 440MX/BX motherboards that will not boot from cd.
however, once booted via the floppy, i can mount the cd just fine.
i don't know if this is the case for you.
hope this helps,
- erik
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* Re: [9fans] floppy install?
2007-01-29 15:28 ` erik quanstrom
@ 2007-01-29 15:49 ` John Osborne
2007-01-29 16:45 ` Anthony Sorace
` (2 more replies)
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From: John Osborne @ 2007-01-29 15:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
It's not that the machine in question doesn't see the CD drive, it
just doesn't have a CD drive. The install from floppy works up to the
point where it is trying to download the archive. I just need a way
to get the archive via the floppy, keeping in mind this machine has no
CD drive whatsoever. Hopefully I'll have time tonight to maybe do one
of two things, 1.) pull the drive from the machine and put the bzip-ed
cd image on the fat partition via my linux box, or 2.) use some other
non plan9 boot floppy to mount the fat partition and
ftp/grab-some-other-way the bzip-ed cd image from the linux box and
save it to the fat partition.
Just to clarify, the floppy install worked up to the point of
downloading the archive. I have the hard disk fully partitioned.
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone!
On 1/29/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> at the risk of missing the point again, what do you mean by "not work"?
> do you mean, the machine won't boot from the machine or do you mean
> it just doesn't see the cd?
>
> i have 2 440MX/BX motherboards that will not boot from cd.
> however, once booted via the floppy, i can mount the cd just fine.
> i don't know if this is the case for you.
>
> hope this helps,
> - erik
>
--
John Osborne
osborne6@ieee.org/osborne6@gmail.com/jro@freeshell.org
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* Re: [9fans] floppy install?
2007-01-29 14:47 [9fans] floppy install? John Osborne
2007-01-29 14:55 ` erik quanstrom
@ 2007-01-29 15:12 ` Gabriel Diaz
1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Gabriel Diaz @ 2007-01-29 15:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Hello
if you can create a partition on the disk, then you can download it
manually and store it there. When the installer ask where is it, just
point it to the partition on which you downloaded it. I think the
installer just hget a file, but that file probably no longer exists
:-?, i think there is only a CD iso now, so you can download the iso,
save it on a partition and mount it :-?
may be using other computer is possible too (mount via 9p other host
with the distribution) :-?
i've never needed this :)
slds.
gabi
On 1/29/07, John Osborne <osborne6@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi -
> I have a oldish, small form factor workstation (a Toshiba Equium 7100
> to be exact, 4GB hard drive, 64MB ram, network card recognized) with
> no CD drive, and I've attempted to install via floppy and I get as far
> as the download portion of the install, and then the download craps
> out with
>
> (download): null list in concatenation
>
> And then thinks it's ready for mounting the dist.
>
> Any suggestions, ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> --
> John Osborne
> osborne6@ieee.org/osborne6@gmail.com/jro@freeshell.org
>
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