From: "Ezequiel Reyes" <ezequiel.reyes@newhotel.co.cu>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:25:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003f01c59f5a$74700aa0$e000a8c0@OBLIVIONDT> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050812173113.08e9d5eb.20h@r-36.net>
I downloaded the vesa-enabled iso image, and it works well everywhere I have
tested it, being various desktop machines and my dell laptop with nvidia
card. Of course, I can only have a configuration of 1024x768x16 max (My
laptop card allows 1600x1200x32 max). I can use and install plan 9 from the
vesa iso with no video problems, but I would like to know if the iso is and
will be mantained in sync with the latest plan 9 changes so that I know I
could download it in the future and use an up to date system. I have a very
slow internet conection, I can only download the iso from time to time. Are
there plans to insert the vesa driver in the official iso? Or better, plans
to get a basic nvidia driver in the future? In the former case, I am using
it with no problems, so if it is in experimental state, it is very stable
already.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Lohmann" <20h@r-36.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
> Good day.
>
> There is an experimental ISO at 9grid.de[0], for testing, if VESA works
> or not. It can be booted as LiveCD used for trying out Plan 9. The other
> possibility is to use Drawterm[1] for connecting to 9grid and so try out
> Plan 9 as user. Booting Plan 9 from the FreeBSD bootloader should work,
> as there is a standard bootloader in the 9fat partition, in the Plan 9
> installation, the ATA HDD should be supported by now and can be seen on
> the CD boot, by the "dev A* ..." lines after "ELCR: ...". Each of them
> is a IDE device, that was found.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph
>
> [0] http://www.9grid.de/plan9/plan9vesa.iso.bz2
> [1] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/ (drawterm-*.gz)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-12 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-12 14:00 Unix
2005-08-12 15:31 ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-08-12 16:25 ` Ezequiel Reyes [this message]
2005-08-12 16:34 ` Anselm R. Garbe
2005-08-12 16:48 ` Russ Cox
2005-08-12 16:55 ` Anselm R. Garbe
2005-08-12 16:47 ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-08-12 17:06 ` Ezequiel Reyes
2005-08-12 15:59 ` Anselm R. Garbe
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