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Subject: Re: [9fans] VMware & Plan 9 on Dell
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Date: Tue,  2 Mar 2004 00:00:22 -0800
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> I've ordered a Dell 5100 laptop (2.8 GHz P4, 512 MB RAM).  XP is my default
> environment but I'll probably be running Mandrake Linux under VMware as
> well.  Any reason why I can't run Plan 9 (although not necessarily
> concurrently w/ Mandrake) under VMware too?

I have a similar setup (2.4GHz cpu) and routinely run Plan9 term on
VMware 4.0. At times (during testing) I run another instance.
As Andrey mentioned, will have to do a cd install with VMWare 4,
and check previous posts regarding "legacy mode" for CD drive
setting.