From: "Alexander Shendi (Web.de)" <Alexander.Shendi@web.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom on Dell Inspiron Mini 9
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:44:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57dadb3e-8110-4867-bf5e-62604770da55@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5967f3402ca87ffd03ea2da47dd51b10@brasstown.quanstro.net>
erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> schrieb:
>> 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?
>
>the 9atom installer is a little too dumb to boot from a usb-cdrom.
>i think what you'd really want is a bootable usb key. does that sound
>right?
Right, a bootable usb-key would be fantastic. Can the 9atom installer
boot from one? Can I use one of the Linux or Windows based tools
to make one?
>
>i don't think that will be too hard to build, if you think that'll do
>the
>trick.
>
>- erik
Many thanks for your quick reply.
Alexander
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-10 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-10 17:20 Alexander Shendi (Web.de)
2013-01-10 17:29 ` erik quanstrom
2013-01-10 17:44 ` Alexander Shendi (Web.de) [this message]
2013-01-10 17:52 ` erik quanstrom
2013-01-10 20:58 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-01-10 19:44 ` David du Colombier
2013-01-10 17:46 ` Nicolas Bercher
2013-01-10 17:54 ` pmarin
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