From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:38:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130628173824.GA225@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e41f14091598cdba6ee2177833fd9ca6@ladd.quanstro.net>
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:40:46PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> this iso uses the traditional el-torito method. unfortunately,
> the installer is size-constrained (1.44MB) and doesn't support usb.
>
FWIW (I implemented El-Torito support for GRUB years ago), the image has
to be some floppy size, and 2.88MB is perfectly supported.
There is also hd emulation, but this it seems not to be widely
supported by BIOSes.
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Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-28 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-28 16:27 Terry Wendt
2013-06-28 16:40 ` erik quanstrom
2013-06-28 17:12 ` Terry Wendt
2013-06-28 17:17 ` Paul A. Patience
2013-06-28 17:12 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 17:19 ` erik quanstrom
2013-06-28 17:43 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 17:50 ` Terry Wendt
2013-06-28 18:13 ` erik quanstrom
2013-06-28 17:38 ` tlaronde [this message]
2013-06-28 18:13 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 18:16 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 18:41 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 18:50 ` erik quanstrom
2013-06-28 18:57 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 20:06 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 20:13 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 20:20 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 20:36 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 17:06 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-06-28 17:15 ` Terry Wendt
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