From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47BC4402.3020904@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:15:14 +0100 From: Kernel Panic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43 References: <643094a4bf94a16f15d8ff7bddfccff1@csplan9.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c86819c-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hongzheng Wang wrote: >Hi John, > >Many thanks. Your tip, zeroing the partition mannually first, may >answer the strange thing I encountered during installation. And, I >also prefer to native running Plan9. But an installation without >workable ethernet is quite unacceptable. So I might try the method >Eric recommended first. Alternatively, I will try to config the >previously installed Plan9 to be a CPU server. > > > is this nic integrated into the mainboard or can it be replaced (some sort of mini pci slot)? maybe a pcmcia network card will do? cinap