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From: Terry Bayne <gnome@hiwaay.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Help! Installation Problem
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:10:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pgU15.22804$pd4.589126@news-east.usenetserver.com> (raw)

Hi,

Yesterday I attempted my first plan 9 installation.  My system:

	AMD K6/2 @450 MHz
	128 MB of RAM
	Matrox MII
	NE2000 Compatible Network Card
	2 IDE Drives
	1 Floppy Drive
	Adaptec 2940
	SCSI Zip Drive

I downloaded a boot floppy image and used rawrite.exe to make a boot
floppy.  The floppy is ok, because I test booted it on another system
when I had problems.

When I attempt to boot from the installation floppy I see the following:

	PBS... Plan 9 from Bell Labs
	using fd0!dos!plan9.ini
	Boot Devices: fd0, sdc0, sdd0
	boot from:

At the prompt I tried specifying the boot drive and file like so:

	fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz

For which I was rewarded with the message:

	No such fat partition

I have verified (under Windows/Dos) that the floppy does indeed contain
a file called 9pcflop.gz.

I have, using a boot floppy installed BeOS on this system.  And Windows
2000 is currently loaded there as well.  Floppy drive access appears to
work just fine in both BeOS and Windows.

Just as a test I booted a Dos bootable floppy - it works fine.

So any ideas what I should try next?

Thanks
Terry Bayne

gnome@hiwaay.net


             reply	other threads:[~2000-06-16  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-16  9:10 Terry Bayne [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-06-16 15:31 jmk
2000-06-16  9:09 Terry Bayne
2000-06-16 15:10 ` Andrey Mirtchovski

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