From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 23935 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2022 03:24:35 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 17 Jul 2022 03:24:35 -0000 Received: from maat.thinktankworkspaces.com ([45.79.94.76]) by 9front; Sat Jul 16 23:23:04 -0400 2022 Message-ID: <1C13A329696D037D7BAF5A9DCAD04CA2@thinktankworkspaces.com> To: 9front@9front.org Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 20:23:01 -0700 From: william@thinktankworkspaces.com In-Reply-To: <988AFD7485652830953194458D8BD495@gaff.inri.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: transactional singleton Subject: Re: [9front] Free Carrots #5: MNT Reform Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk So what you are saying is inst/start should work but the fat32 device that holds the image could be corrupted? I booted using mnt.reform image below and ran disk/fdisk -b /dev/sdU7b1211/data disk/format -b pbs -d -r 2 /dev/sdU7b1211/dos after that it automatically mounted in /shr/sdU7b1211 9front-c5cf9b3e26033272c5f57b9a860c335e63786045.reform.img.gz after that the goal was to read from that device and write to sdU7b121 the larger drive I gave up and cat 9front-c5cf9b3e26033272c5f57b9a860c335e63786045.reform.img.gz > /dev/sdU7b121/data size never changes and fat32 should not be a problem if I can 'cat' the image to another drive My partitions are always the same with the same size regardless of the size of the drive Task to do [prepdisk]: -------------------------------------- The following Plan 9 disk partitions were found. /dev/sdM0/plan9 empty 0 2 (2 sectors, 1.00 KB) nvram 2 3 (1 sectors, 512 B ) fs 3 3657023 (3657020 sectors, 1.74 GB) empty 3657023 3657024 (1 sectors, 512 B ) /dev/sdU7b121/plan9 empty 0 2 (2 sectors, 1.00 KB) nvram 2 3 (1 sectors, 512 B ) fs 3 3657023 (3657020 sectors, 1.74 GB) empty 3657023 3657024 (1 sectors, 512 B ) Plan 9 partition to subdivide (/dev/sdM0/plan9, /dev/sdU7b121/plan9)[no default]: Quoth sl@stanleylieber.com: > > unknown format. > > untested, but i think alien formats can confuse the install scripts. > try dd /target/device/data before running the installer. > just be careful you write to the correct device! > > sl >