Re: [9fans] Noob hardware question

["e.c.sharpe" <bride.of.excession@gmail.com>]

So I took your advice after all and good advice it was,
thanks! The plan9 cd won't boot on this machine but it will
run in qemu with FreeBSD, so I suppose I have my answer.  Also
I was mistaken to assume that virtualisation would bog my
machine down, it runs *very* well. I am so impressed...
Thanks again. 
:)
 ecs

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:23:59 -0400
"LiteStar numnums" <litestar@gmail.com> wrote:

> You could download qemu & boot it with that to see if it is
> a image or actually a hardware
> problem. Besides, for a new user, qemu may be better anyway
> (no need to blow away
> working OS, plus you can switch in and out of it).
> 
> On 6/11/06, e.c.sharpe <bride.of.excession@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:04:03 +0200
> > "Rodolfo (kix)" <rodolfogarciap@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What is the problem?
> > >
> >
> > Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear?
> > The disc just doesn't boot. I can mount it and look at it
> > but my machine doesn't find it bootable.  I want to
> > determine (before burning a new one) whether it's the disc
> > or a hardware incompatability, so I ask if anyone has
> > knowledge of this specific model's (Toshiba Portege
> > 7020ct) compatablity with Plan9 (fourth edition). I burned
> > it on a Debian machine using cdrecord from the CLI, as
> > I've done previously with iso images.
> >
> > Thanks
> > ecs
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > 2006/6/11, e.c.sharpe <bride.of.excession@gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I have been reading about Plan9 and am very keen to
> > > > try it out, so I downloaded the iso and burned it to a
> > > > cd but couldn't get it to boot on my Toshiba Portege
> > > > 7020ct. Proably I just wrote a bad disc but before I
> > > > retry I wanted to ask if anyone has got it running on
> > > > or knows any reason why it wouldn't run on this
> > > > machine? I've seen quite a few reports of it running
> > > > on a Toshiba Satellite, nothing about the Portege
> > > > though.
> > > >
> > > > Also, I have really enjoyed lurking here recently, you
> > > > have a really lively community.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Much,
> > > > ecs
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rodolfo García "kix"
> > >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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