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From: Kenji Arisawa b42195g@nuc...
Subject: [9fans] Re: Newbie Question: Install Can't find FAT
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 21:14:12 +0900 (JST)

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?

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