On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:23, John Floren<slawmas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, first note that I didn't have any luck with QEMU, I had to install > on an actual 486.
i have the same error with both qemu and period hardware. i'm running qemu-8.2.0 and a pentium 266MHz laptop. on the laptop both my freedos partition and space for 2e are near the end of a 20G disk. same for qemu but with a 200M hda file. was your qemu problem similar to mine? > 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. yep, did the same On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:26, erik quanstrom<quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > i don't know > what versions of fat 2e supported, but i would imagine restricting > oneself to fat16 (and not fat16 lba) would be safest. i used fat16, i think lba. i figured plan 9 would be smart enough to deal with lba and large disks, but wikipedia tells me that 1995 was sort of a chs-lba transition period, so perhaps i was wrong. i won't be able to experiment with chs on the laptop as it has a large disk with freebsd filling it except for the very end
