On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:11 AM, michael block<michaelmuf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 23:49, John Floren<slawmas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> With a little help from FreeDOS, I am now successfully running 2e > > i can't get past the first disk. it seems there is no "suitable" fat > partition. no amount of partitioning and formatting under freedos or > freebsd results in anything disk one will put files on. so what > exactly constitutes a "suitable" fat partition? > >
Ok, first note that I didn't have any luck with QEMU, I had to install on an actual 486. I booted the FreeDOS disk and created a small partition (something like 50 MB) on the hard disk, leaving the rest unpartitioned. Then I installed FreeDOS to the small partition and started the Plan 9 installation. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike