[9fans] installing plan9 woes
e...@washoe.cs.unr.edu
Jim, since you raised the question here is my story. I picked up
copies of the 4 diskette set in September and these were used by
my students to install plan9 on their own computers as part of
a course in distributed operating systems. The same diskette set
installed several plan9 systems with no problems. I have been running
a plan9 system at home based on the 95 CDROM distribution. The kernel
I was running was from the diskettes distributed with the 95 CDROM.
I rebuilt
the kernel, 9pcdisk, based on the update archive/boddle from bell-labs
as best I could. Copied to the dos partition, I tried to reboot
and typed the wrong incantation to get a boot and root file system
to a kernel coming from the dos partition. When the kernel did boot it
crashed and then no kernel would boot correctly. Even the original
kernel in the boot parition would not boot. I assume that I had
corrupted the disk layout, so I decided to upgrade some hardware
and reinstall the newer kernel.
That's when the 4 diskette set would not install on my system. Obvisouly
I did not have disk 1 with the 16 Oct date. Disk1 would unpack and
install fine, disk2 would not. I made additional copies of
disk2, but to no avail. I even swapped the floppy in the chance
it was bad. (It may still be, as I had bizarre behavior with a
9pcfs boot floppy written today.)
There are now 2 disk1 copies at bell-labs ftp archive. I am unsure if
I tried the one with the 16 OCT date. What is the difference? There
is no indication that I could find as to which one is the ``best''
one to use.
The kernel from G. David Butler at dbsystems.com installed and
booted fine and I am using it to send this mail to you.
Hardware:
VL/ISA 486SV2 system board
Intel 486DX2-33
cache 256K
memory 32 MB
NE2000 ethernet look alike, addr 300, IRQ 9
Adaptec 1542 C , addr 330, IRQ 11,
VL VESA local bus IDE disk controller
Toshiba SCSI cdrom at id 2
Cirrus GD 5426, 1 MB, video adapter
Main disk, Fujitsu MPA3017AT IDE, secondary MAXTOR 7345 AT IDE
Ed wishart, e...@cs.unr.edu
jim mckie
sounds like i broke something in the new disk1. a copy of the previous
disk1 is in the disk1.nvd file in the pcdist directory on the ftp site.
if you could try that it would let me know if i blew it (but not where).
i'm about to leave on a trip and won't be able to try this myself until
i return on the 22nd.
--jim