From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: gizmoguy1@gmail.com (John Preston)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:14:04 +0100
Subject: [9fans] Installation woes
Message-ID: <4D94D27C.5050807@gmail.com>
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I've spent the past couple of days trying to get some form of P9
installation up, but I've had a lot of trouble.

The first thing I tried (and the installation that would be ideal for
me, if anyone can help) was installing on an ASUS Eee PC netbook. It
doesn't have a CD drive, and I don't have a USB CD drive, so I tried
dd-ing the ISO onto a USB stick under Linux, but this wouldn't boot. Any
ideas why? Does anyone have any experience with P9 USB installation media?

Afterwards, I tried VirtualBox, which gave me the following error:

panic: assert failed at 0xf018d652

I quickly moved on to QEMU, which worked but had ridiculously slow disk
throughput (the installation would have taken at least 3 hours). This is
on a Dell mini 10 netbook with an Intel Atom so it's bound to be slow,
but I've had much higher transfer speeds with other guest OSes.

VMware Player (using configuration made with EasyVMX) gave me a black
screen when rio loaded, and Bochs worked but was even slower than QEMU.
Can anyone offer me any help with:

1. making USB installation media;
2. speeding up QEMU or Bochs; or
3. getting VirtualBox or VMware Player working?

I haven't tried any pre-built images as I would very much like to go
through the installation process myself.
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John Preston

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