From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:29:24 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <5967f3402ca87ffd03ea2da47dd51b10@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <42e6ce2f-be39-4edb-9dd6-b23d8d823727@email.android.com> References: <42e6ce2f-be39-4edb-9dd6-b23d8d823727@email.android.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom on Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05807768-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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