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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl...>
Subject: [9fans] Re: Boot/install help?
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:03:01 GMT

Marco Shaw wrote:
> I'm just planning to install Plan9, but when I use the boot/install
> disk, all I get is 'boot from:'.  From that point the install
> instructions indicate to just hit enter, but that doesn't work.

While it is possible that the boot floppy was miswritten,
it is more likely that you have one of the systems on which
Plan 9's installation software has trouble with the floppy
controller.  If you have two floppy drives enabled in your
BIOS, disable the second one and try again.  If that doesn't
work then just keep trying anyway and maybe sooner or later
it will accidentally work.  (Based on my own experience.)