Hey folks, too bad that one can't post to comp.os.plan9 - I did this and now it's gone and I have to retype this ... ... so now a little shorter ;-)
My plan is to install Plan 9 onto my ThinkPad X30 from a primary FAT32 partition by booting from an external (not usb) floppy drive. "If you wish to install from local media, you need a FAT file system or [...]" [1]. He is booting from the floppy - this is how far I got: PBS1...Plan 9 from Bell Labs ELCR: 0800 apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di=ffff ebx=5976 esi=-1 initialprobe, to find plan9.ini...using fd0!dos!plan0.ini . Then there is this Startup Menu with default 1 timeout 10s I took this ans then: pcirouting: 8086/248A at pin 1 irq 11 #Y0: Ricoh 476 PCI/Cardbus bridge, 50000000 intl 11 #Y1: Ricoh 476 PCI/Cardbus bridge, 50100000 intl 11 dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 2F00 mwdma 0007 udma 203F LLBA sectors 78242976 Unknown boot device: sdD0!cdboot!9pccd.gz Bootdevices: fd0 boot from: I tried this: boot from: fd0!9pccd.gz booting fd0!9pccd.gz error walking to 9pccd.gz boot from: ... well I don't know further (I'm really new to Plan 9) Any Help much appreciated :-) regards, y0shi [1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Installation_instructions -- psyc://nemesis.psyc.biz/~y0shi http://psyc.biz/y0shi_public.key
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