Re: [9fans] booting plan9 cd on thinkpad x23

[John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>]

Don't get rid of Win2k just yet.  It may be helpful
in getting plan9 installed.  In particular there is
a DOS program ld which can load 9load from a FAT
partition.  You can use this as a replacement for the
boot floppy.  The plan9 installer can read the iso
image from a FAT partition as well, so you can
use that as a replacement for the install cd.
Maybe someone with more experience and a better
understanding of the installer can suggest a
plan9.ini to use.  I think it should be possible to
make this work even if you never get the cd drive
working.

> Hello,
>
> I wanted to try out plan9 on my newly bought thinkpad
> x23. It is light and comes with absolutely no disk or
> cd drives. I use an USB connected cdrom writer when I
> want to boot something.
>
> Apparantly the plan9.iso cannot recognize the storage
> via USB. Does anybody know a remedy for this? I
> currently still have a win2k on a reduced partion
> (soon to be replaced), but I cannot immediately see
> how that would help me booting plan9. 9load just stops
> and asks "boot from:".
>
> Note: I've mostly used Debian GNU/Linux in the past
> (and Gentoo, Suse, Mandrake, FreeBSD), but finally
> decided to try out plan9. I've used 9wm, rc, sam and
> wily for over a year, grown to like it more than
> anything else in GNU/Linux-land, and now wants to try
> out the real thing. (-: I mainly stayed in the console
> until I got 9wm.
>
> I plan on installing a GNU/Linux anyway (probably
> Gentoo) and get rid of win2k. I've gotten used to have
> several distributions lying around... Would there be
> any improvement on possibility of booting things from
> GNU/Linux? Is there another iso-image or such thing I
> could download to bootstrap plan9-installation?
>
> In hope and best regards,
> Dennis Decker Jensen
>
>
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John Stalker
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Princeton University
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