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From: Will Rose cwr@cra...
Subject: IBM-PC install on E: drive?
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 15:36:48 -0500

John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs.columbia.EDU) wrote:

: hi, to install onto a partition, just use fdisk to delete the logical
: drive -- as long as your partition is the highest one on the disk, plan9
: will go into it for the File System Installation.

: the first step of the installation puts the contents of the boot disk into
: C:\plan9

: btw, if your last fdisk was with OS/2's fdisk, you'll need to redo you're
: disk with a DOS fdisk.

Well, no.  It's a long time since I used MSDOS' fdisk, and Plan 9 loaded
fine onto an OS/2 formatted/partitioned drive.  Will the four-disk set
really load into an MSDOS partition?  The CDROM won't.

Will
cwr@cra...