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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@gal...
Subject: Control over Installation Partition?
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 01:18:37 -0400

David McNab <mcnab@bay...> writes:
| Scott Schwartz <schwartz@gal...> wrote:
| |David McNab <mcnab@bay...> writes:
| || Is there a way to install to a specific disk "partition" 
| || (as in fdisk partition),
| |
| |No.
| |
| || or do am I forced to trust the installation program to Do The Right Thing?
| |
| |Yes.
| 
|      Well then: will it?    -- Dave

Yes, if you follow the instructions.  Leave unassigned space after the
last partition, and Plan 9 will go there.  There was apparently a bug
with an early version of the install program, but the current floppy
images should be good.  They worked for me.