> these are two, unrelated issues. > > the .iso size issue should not be a big deal. there appears to be some > accounting that's off for cd-roms in the plan 9 iso burning software. > (mk9660(8)). >
Wouldn't surprise me, but it seems to work for me. If anyone has a more detailed explanation of what is wrong where, I'll take a look at it. > > this iso uses the traditional el-torito method. unfortunately, > the installer is size-constrained (1.44MB) and doesn't support usb. > > while the image > > hget http://ftp.9atom.org/other/9atom.nboot.iso.bz2 > > has the new installer which uses bios to access the hard drive > without el-torito emulation, and thus has no size constraints. > while it does fail on more hardware, it does support usb during > the install. I don't know much about how 9atom works, but the new plan 9 loader uses el-torito, but version 3 which lets you access the whole cd as an lba device. G.
