Eric, thank you for explaining the facts with dossrv!
Well. I can understand now that /n/9fat/.... will be populated by dossrv
and not part of the inatalled files and that cannnot be the source of
the bug, but is a follow up. There must be something wrong before that
step of "bootsetup".
I did some more installation trials in the meantime following the
"installation instructions" from
http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/installation_instructions.
I followed that recipe just before, but in a more mechanical and
brainless way.)
The chapter "Locate and Mount the Distribution Archive" with the task
"mountdisk" is very obscure (especially for me as a non-english
speaker). First of all the value of the "Distribution disk" ist not (and
cannot be) "/dev/sdD0/data" because such a directory is NOT on the
distribution disk (sdD0)! (May be I am wrong again?) But that entry of
"/dev/sdD0/data" will only be accepted! Very strange! There is a
directory /dev/sdD0/distro on /dev/sdD0, but that will not be accepted
as an entry. (In the description is mentioned "a CD image named
plan9.iso" but where should that be in the installation process?) I also
tried a download of the archive via ethernet, but without success. I
argue that at this point there is the bug in the description or
something wrong with my trials. I argue that this will cause the problem
with the task "bootsetup" at the end of the installatin trials. At this
point the installation-description is very nebulous (for me). I also
wonder that there is no task "copydist" offered in the installation
process, so I am absolutely shure that I do something fundamental wrong.
Is there any solution?
By the way, I do not think that plan 9 can convince and interest new
users with such fundamental problems. Nowadays everything must work
flush libidinous from the start, otherwise it will be denied! May be
such a system is only of interest for fossils like me.
Thanks and regards
Bernhard
