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From: J. Hierro-Grosse jhg@log...
Subject: What would cause...
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 03:46:12 -0500

Er, I seem to recall that during the install, Plan9 writes some
configuration details to Floppy #1 - In fact I recall a note somewhere
about making a backup copy of floppy #1 ..just in case...I hope this is
not off the subject & helps?

Joe.

> 
> John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs....) wrote:
> 
> : i *doubt* that the floppy is trying to write to itself -- it reads alot
> : during boot, it's all reading, though.
> 
> The reason that I figure it is trying to install to itself is when I
> write-protected the disk, I got I/O errors during install.  When I made the
> disk writable, everything seemed to work fine but nothing was on the hard
> drive.
> 
> Eric Lemings
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