From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:14:23 +0200 From: David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <20120516151423.0d28c0de@wks-ddc.exosec.local> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8e6511ca-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > The bell labs iso would boot but not find the disk leading > to some confusion when I didn't notice it was trying to > partition the install CD during installation Which Plan 9 CD image have you tried? The first Plan 9 CD including the new bootstraps was published just yesterday. > after setting to Compatibility mode the Bell Labs iso install > would go along well until it was trying to copydist which > then was either completely failing or going incredibly slow; > I waited at least 15 minutes during this process and it was > at around 3% before I gave up. The cd would spin up and > down but it really didn't seem to be copying anything at > all or at least nothing very quickly. Have you enabled DMA at the begin of the installation process? Whitout DMA, your disk i/o will likely be something like ten times slower. -- David du Colombier