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From: Nicolas Bercher <nbercher@yahoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom on Dell Inspiron Mini 9
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On 10/01/2013 18:20, Alexander Shendi (Web.de) wrote:
> Hello 9fans,
>
> I'm planning to install Plan 9 on a spare i386 machine, a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook.
>
> I have googled a bit and my best bet seems  to be the 9atom distribution. However
> the netbook doesn't have a CDROM and I would habe to buy an USB-CDROM-Drive.
> Thus my questions:
> * Has anyone tried  Plan 9 on  this or similar hardware?
> * Can Plan 9 boot of an USB-CDROM?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Alexander
>

Note that standard Plan 9 runs well on atom based machine (Atom D410,
N10/ICH 7) with no (apparent) problems.

Nicolas