From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:31:13 +0200
From: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
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Good day.

There is an experimental ISO at 9grid.de[0], for testing, if VESA works
or not. It can be booted as LiveCD used for trying out Plan 9. The other
possibility is to use Drawterm[1] for connecting to 9grid and so try out
Plan 9 as user. Booting Plan 9 from the FreeBSD bootloader should work,
as there is a standard bootloader in the 9fat partition, in the Plan 9
installation, the ATA HDD should be supported by now and can be seen on
the CD boot, by the "dev A* ..." lines after "ELCR: ...". Each of them
is a IDE device, that was found.

Sincerely,

Christoph

[0] http://www.9grid.de/plan9/plan9vesa.iso.bz2
[1] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/ (drawterm-*.gz)