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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



  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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