From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:10:11 +0000 From: Terry Bayne Message-ID: Subject: [9fans] Help! Installation Problem Topicbox-Message-UUID: c08b6686-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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