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From: Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Mac Mini x86?
Date: Wed,  5 Apr 2006 17:42:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060405144224.GL17716@XTL.antioffline.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60604050726s4e5164cfy2f650bbc907db4fa@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:26:49AM -0700, David Leimbach wrote:
> You'd need a way to boot it first of all.
>
> No x86 based mac has BIOS.  It's all EFI, and without the BIOS
> backward compatibility modules.
>
> Someone put together a bunch of stuff for booting Windows XP Pro and
> has an installation method, but it is far from easy or even supported
> by anyone.  It would likely work for Plan 9 as well.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

--
The early versions of TeX had this classic, which I believe the people at
Stanford even had printed on T-shirts:
        You can't do that in horizontal mode.
		-- David Munroe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-05 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-05  7:46 Daniel Soderstrom
2006-04-05 14:26 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-05 14:39   ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-04-05 14:47     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-05 16:26       ` David Leimbach
2006-04-05 18:52         ` David Leimbach
2006-04-05 20:22           ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-06 22:06             ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-04-06 22:23               ` David Leimbach
2006-04-06 22:29                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-04-06 22:36                   ` David Leimbach
2006-04-06 22:40                     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-07  0:47                       ` David Leimbach
2006-04-07  1:43                         ` quanstro
2006-04-07  1:17                           ` David Leimbach
2006-04-05 14:42   ` Harri Haataja [this message]
2006-04-05 14:47   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-05 15:22     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-05 15:34 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-05 16:24   ` David Leimbach
2006-04-07  1:23 erik quanstrom
2006-04-07  1:29 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-07  3:52   ` lucio
2006-04-07  5:53     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-07  2:30 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-07  1:32 erik quanstrom
2006-04-07  1:43 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-07  2:23   ` jmk
2006-04-07  3:19     ` David Leimbach

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