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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation keyboard troubles
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:34:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6670a3ada8edb91ef5e6e85bb7adf1f@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140e7ec30701280952v5ec8a20dpb25b0cf96dac0ea5@mail.gmail.com>

with a complicated partition arrangement, i would run the partitioning
part of the installation by hand.  (you can always open a new rio window
during install.)  i've never attempted to dual boot plan 9 -- it
has always seemed an unnecessiary complication to me.

prep(8) should have information you'll need to (sub)partition things
by hand.

another option, if you have a spare disk is to put the plan 9 boot
partition (you only need <100MB) on one disk and put all the other
plan 9 stuff on a raw disk -- that is, one with no dos partition table.

as outlined in the manual pages, the plan 9 boot partition needs to
contain a pbs, 9load, plan9.ini, and your kernel.

also, you could create a boot cd image to boot into plan 9.  i've
built such a beast, but it's painful and i don't have the details
handy.

- erik



      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-28 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-28 14:38 sqweek
2007-01-28 14:46 ` erik quanstrom
2007-01-28 17:52   ` sqweek
2007-01-28 18:34     ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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