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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@nul...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Still more newbie blather
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:37:02 GMT

Darrell wrote:
> ... when I try to floppy boot it, it shows "PBS... Plan 9 by Bell
> Labs", and then it reboot.

My first guess is that you have a bad floppy disk.  Try a different
one with a *fresh* download.  Don't use RAWRITE.EXE under Windows
NT (including 2000 Pro); stick to Windows 9x or some sort of UNIX
("dd" for the latter with bs= the exact size of the 1.4MB image).

There is some sort of problem with the floppy device support used
in the installation floppy (9disk); on some systems it works fine,
on others it works occasionally, and on still others it never works.