> The bell labs iso would boot but not find the disk leading > to some confusion when I didn't notice it was trying to > partition the install CD during installation
Which Plan 9 CD image have you tried? The first Plan 9 CD including the new bootstraps was published just yesterday. > after setting to Compatibility mode the Bell Labs iso install > would go along well until it was trying to copydist which > then was either completely failing or going incredibly slow; > I waited at least 15 minutes during this process and it was > at around 3% before I gave up. The cd would spin up and > down but it really didn't seem to be copying anything at > all or at least nothing very quickly. Have you enabled DMA at the begin of the installation process? Whitout DMA, your disk i/o will likely be something like ten times slower. -- David du Colombier
