From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200703141624.l2EGOse11354@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Problem installing plan9 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:43:33 +0100." References: From: Axel Belinfante MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <11350.1173889494.1@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl.cs.utwente.nl> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:24:54 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 23c62bec-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 if I understand correctly, you cannot directly install on the X20 because it has no cd drive? is it possible to copy the plan9 iso image onto your hard disk (in a windows or linux partition or so) when it is in the pakock, and then put the hard disk inside the IBM Thinkpad X20, and then do the installation, using the image on the hard disk? hmmm... then the problem becomes: how to boot the X20 into the installation program once the hard disk is again inside the X20... does the X20 have a floppy, or could a usb stick be used, or so? sorry, turns out I have more questions than answers, Axel. > no sry maybe im explaining my problem wrong :-/ (english problems). > I want to install plan 9, on a hdd i want to pull after install in my > IBM Thinkpad X20. So i need to take the pakock laptop because my ibm > dont have a cd drive. And if i want to install with cd and the pakock > laptop i get stuck > > On 3/14/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > i thought i was running on another machine. > > am i wrong? > > > > - erik > >