From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:44:38 +0200 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Chuck Foreman" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera M2/8.0 (Win32, build 7561) Subject: [9fans] (no subject) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: b13f26fa-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, How to install: My Laptop won't allow both a CD and a floppy drive. The CD controller is somehow not recognized despite booting from the CD! It recognizes the floppy drive despite it not being there... Anyway... I can use use th= e floppy drive to boot from for the install. I need to get some feedback regarding the order of install. Since I can't store the image on CD and use the floppy at the same time; Is there any advantage to using cfdisk to set the available primary =20 partition for Plan 9 in advance of the floppy install? What happens when it finds an existing Plan 9 partition? Will/would the "partdisk" step do this "automatically" ie prompting for the necessary partitions? If I interrupted the install at that point (after the partitioning but prior to loading the image)could I theoretically put/copy the Plan9.iso image into the Plan 9 partition.. is there any benefit to =20 that? Should I put the image somewhere on the HDD (a Primary Fat32, Primary F-BSD, an log/ext linux reiserfs)and mount this at that stage in the =20 install? Should I wait and see what the install will prompt for available media.. = =20 interrupt if necessary..copy the media there) and resume the install? Thanks Taking it slowly and deliberatly --=20 Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/