[9fans] Installation on disk-less laptops

[9fans] Installation on disk-less laptops

[faif]

I have seen some tips here and there about installing Plan 9 on a disk-less computer but are there any guides? I have an eee pc 1000h and I am interested in installing Plan 9. Whether it will be the standard installation, 9atom, or something else is not very important. I just want to try Plan 9 on a non-vm environment.

Re: [9fans] Installation on disk-less laptops

[Ethan Grammatikidis]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:02:28 GMT
faif <faifgnu@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have seen some tips here and there about installing Plan 9 on a disk-less computer but are there any guides? I have an eee pc 1000h and I am interested in installing Plan 9. Whether it will be the standard installation, 9atom, or something else is not very important. I just want to try Plan 9 on a non-vm environment.
>

i booted a 1005ha from usb the other day, but there wasn't a driver for the ethernet, which put a stop to actual use. (i have other hardware, so it wasn't a priority.) you can't always tell what will work in a different model though. i use 9front myself, it's well-maintained. it works particularly well on many thinkpads, if you have one of those.

https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/KnownWorkingHardware

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Re: [9fans] Installation on disk-less laptops

[Skip Tavakkolian]

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the simplest is to setup an auth+fs box (could be a VM), and then PXE or
bootp/tftp boot a diskless "terminal" kernel.  if the device is to run a
"cpu" kernel, then some sort of nvram is needed to hold the host owner's
credentials.


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:02 AM, faif <faifgnu@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have seen some tips here and there about installing Plan 9 on a
> disk-less computer but are there any guides? I have an eee pc 1000h and I
> am interested in installing Plan 9. Whether it will be the standard
> installation, 9atom, or something else is not very important. I just want
> to try Plan 9 on a non-vm environment.
>
>

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