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From: Eric Dorman eld@jew...
Subject: [9fans] Re: Newbie Question: Install Can't find FAT
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:40:13 -0800

> From b42195g@nuc... Tue Jan  6 06:13:22 1998
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> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 21:14:12 +0900 (JST)
> From: Kenji Arisawa <b42195g@nuc...>
> To: 9fans@cse...
> Subject: [9fans] Re: Newbie Question: Install Can't find FAT
> 
> Hello 9fans!
> 
> Kevin says:
> >I'm giving Plan 9 a try from the most recent diskettes at Bell Labs. My
> >target machine is a Pentium 133 with 32 MB RAM and onboard I/O. 
> [snip]
> >I am using a single 50 MB HD for the trial. I repartitioned it into a
> >single 5 MB DOS partition, to hold just COMMAND.COM etc and the \PLAN9
> >directory. The other 45 MB is unallocated (no partition created). 
> [snip]
> >When I run B, it whirls for a bit and then on the "system configuration"
> >screen informs me that it cannot find an MBR or FAT partition on which
> >to install the distribution. The MBR is there (the box booted on it) and
> >as indicated there's 45 MB free for allocation.
> 
> The swap partition size of my Plan9 system with 64MB memory is
> as much as 92MB.
> Does someone know the rule that Plan9 configures swap size?

Autoconfiguration says at most 20% of the unallocated space
capped by 2*size of memory (unless there's a bug :) ).  I think 
most likely the disk is too weird.

> Kenji Arisawa
> E-mail: arisawa@aic...

Eric Dorman
University of California at San Diego
edorman@ucs...