From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:42:24 +0300 From: Harri Haataja Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Mac Mini x86? In-reply-to: <3e1162e60604050726s4e5164cfy2f650bbc907db4fa@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <20060405144224.GL17716@XTL.antioffline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <3e1162e60604050726s4e5164cfy2f650bbc907db4fa@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3011ad5a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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