From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom on Dell Inspiron Mini 9
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:29:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5967f3402ca87ffd03ea2da47dd51b10@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42e6ce2f-be39-4edb-9dd6-b23d8d823727@email.android.com>
> 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?
i don't think that will be too hard to build, if you think that'll do the
trick.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-10 17:29 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 [this message]
2013-01-10 17:44 ` Alexander Shendi (Web.de)
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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