The files in this directory recreate the four 1.44MB diskettes
used to load a limited version of Plan 9 onto a PC.  It is intended
to let you try out Plan 9 before buying, in particular to see if
the system supports your PC hardware.

disk1	- a 1.44MB diskette image.  It must be copied directly onto a floppy,
	 NOT into a file on a DOS formatted diskette.

disk{2,3,4}.vd - are files that must be copied into files on 3 different
	 DOS formatted diskettes.

The above files are different from those shipped with the distribution.
In particular they contain important changes to fix floppy, hard drive,
and vga problems.  They also contain a new disk preparation program that
doesn't clobber anything on any partition described in a Master Boot Record.

The contents of the distributed diskettes can be found in the files
disk1.orig, disk{2,3,4}.vd.orig.

Read the document ``Installing the Plan 9 Distribution'' for information
about these 4 diskettes.  Read also http://plan9/errata.html
since it has important additional information.

Copying the disk image of disk1 onto a floppy is easy under Plan 9
or Unix: just dd to the raw device.  However, we don't know of a
standard DOS utility to do this.  Nigel Roles, [email protected],
has been kind enough to write one: it's in /pub/plan9/putimg on
ftp.cs.york.ac.uk.

Also, [email protected] writes:

 I just thought you might like to know that there is another utility out 
 there to do this called RAWRITE.EXE.  It's part of the Slackware Linux 
 distribution installation support files, and consequently is carried on 
 sunsite.unc.edu (/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/install/RAWRITE.EXE),
 tsx-11.mit.edu, ftp.cdrom.com, and all sites which mirror them.