From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200312081631.hB8GVfVp018122@fine1008.math.Princeton.EDU> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] booting plan9 cd on thinkpad x23 In-reply-to: <20031207164902.80560.qmail@web60506.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031207164902.80560.qmail@web60506.mail.yahoo.com> From: John Stalker Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:31:41 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9cd2ba60-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > -- John Stalker Department of Mathematics Princeton University (609)258-6469