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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
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Date: Fri,  2 Nov 2001 19:29:33 +0100
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> Now, now, be fair.  The real problem is that we don't have a USB
> driver at boot, we require a floppy disk to install, and your laptop's
> floppy drive is USB.

But the BIOS should understand the USB floppy and from there you can
boot/install from c: unless this m/c is weirder than a VAIO.

The process is tedios, but I did document it:

    http://home.fr.inter.net/boyd/code/plan9/usbflop.html

All credit goes to Russ.