From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 14:58:58 -0400 From: Dan Cross To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Can't install on VirtualPC Message-ID: <20060402185858.GI9931@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <3C367524-BFB8-4093-B007-0B05CD164AC1@orthanc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C367524-BFB8-4093-B007-0B05CD164AC1@orthanc.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2c043304-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:04:14PM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > VPC can't boot the installation CD image. I never did figure out > why. You need to download the floppy boot image, and boot with both > it and the CD image attached. After the install is complete you can > toss the floppy image. I've gotten Virtual PC on the Mac to boot from the Plan 9 installation CD, but I don't remember how. It was strange, however it worked. It seems, however, that they've modified virtual PC to intercept the middle mouse button and map it to button 1, so it's sort of useless for Plan 9. Also, the virtualized disk access to horribly slow; I'm waiting for qemu to get up to snuff (or just to get an Intel based Mac and dual boot, which perhaps shouldn't be too hard). - Dan C.