From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:34:36 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation keyboard troubles In-Reply-To: <140e7ec30701280952v5ec8a20dpb25b0cf96dac0ea5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 09240444-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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