From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: <20060402185858.GI9931@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <3C367524-BFB8-4093-B007-0B05CD164AC1@orthanc.ca> <20060402185858.GI9931@augusta.math.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6237B441-63A7-47D4-A67D-3E8CB46CE1D0@nifty.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Moroo Jun Subject: Re: [9fans] Can't install on VirtualPC Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:11:39 +0900 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2d0383ea-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. >