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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] installation on SATYA disk failed
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:08:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51ce22e8ab90475811d16daa6bde028f@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ecada1e0907252311r386a7291q5c4dfe976a045a10@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun Jul 26 02:12:21 EDT 2009, bvalek2@gmail.com wrote:
> I suggest that you keep the floppy-install option. If Plan 9 is
> installed, its normally on a virtual machine, or on an older computer
> somewhere in the garage, often with floppy-drives only. But if its
> time consuming to support it...

do you have such a machine?  (i have a pentium ii and a 386 dx,
and both have cd rom drives)

supposing you do, do you have one that doesn't have a pata port?
cd rom drives are really cheep.  if you come to iwp9 i'll give you
a few.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-26 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24 10:09 cej
2009-07-24 12:11 ` [9fans] installation on SATA " cej
2009-07-24 15:07   ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-29  9:00     ` cej
2009-07-24 14:17 ` [9fans] installation on SATYA " erik quanstrom
2009-07-26  4:22   ` geoff
2009-07-26  6:11     ` Bela Valek
2009-07-26 14:08       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-07-26 15:16         ` hiro
2009-07-26 19:09         ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-26 19:51           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-26 20:14             ` tlaronde
2009-07-26 11:48 Akshat Kumar

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