Re: [9fans] Can't install on VirtualPC

[Moroo Jun <moroo@nifty.com>]

I can boot and install using Virtual PC on Tiger by old copy of
plan9.iso.bz2(2003/12/18).

On 2006/04/03, at 3:58, Dan Cross wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:04:14PM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>> VPC can't boot the installation CD image.  I never did figure out
>> why.  You need to download the floppy boot image, and boot with both
>> it and the CD image attached.  After the install is complete you can
>> toss the floppy image.
>
> I've gotten Virtual PC on the Mac to boot from the Plan 9 installation
> CD, but I don't remember how.  It was strange, however it worked.
>
> It seems, however, that they've modified virtual PC to intercept the
> middle mouse button and map it to button 1, so it's sort of useless
> for
> Plan 9.  Also, the virtualized disk access to horribly slow; I'm
> waiting
> for qemu to get up to snuff (or just to get an Intel based Mac and
> dual boot, which perhaps shouldn't be too hard).
>
> 	- Dan C.
>