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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom ISO images?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:59:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <06c86f3eb39d17ba344d5d97e5b3f739@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201404251453.s3PEr06N021126@freefriends.org>

> What is the status of the 9atom ISO images?
>
> I have a laptop that I think is too old to boot from USB that perhaps
> I can put Plan 9 on...

you can try.

the technique i used to help install on a mac pro, which will also
not boot from usb except efi, is to put the usb image on disk, and
edit the plan9.ini file (in a fat partition) to point at the proper
disk device.  one suspects this will be /dev/sdE0, or perhaps C0.

- erik



      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-25 15:59 UTC|newest]

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2014-04-25 14:53 arnold
2014-04-25 15:59 ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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