Re: [9fans] Problem installing plan9

[Abhey Shah <as234@york.ac.uk>]

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sorry copied the wrong line fixed below

On 14 Mar 2007, at 16:43, Abhey Shah wrote:

> Here's what you can do
> 1) make some space on your ibm hard drive ( few gigs is enough)  
> with an empty partition say hda3
> 2) start up qemu like this
> sudo qemu -boot  c -cdrom plan9.img /dev/hda
> 3) install plan 9 (if you want to keep linux then don't let it  
> write to your mbr and use grub to boot)
>
>
> On 14 Mar 2007, at 16:28, Moritz Lutz wrote:
>
>> hehe ;).
>> no no floppy and booting of a usb stick also wont work :( allready  
>> tried to boot
>> from a cf card, but without succsess :-(.
>> I got a working linux on this maschine. Maybe its possible to  
>> install plan down from
>> this *dont know* and erase the linux later.
>>
>> On 3/14/07, Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl > wrote:
>> if I understand correctly, you cannot directly install on the X20
>> because it has no cd drive?
>>
>> is it possible to copy the plan9 iso image onto your hard disk
>> (in a windows or linux partition or so) when it is in the pakock,
>> and then put the hard disk inside the IBM Thinkpad X20,
>> and then do the installation, using the image on the hard disk?
>>
>> hmmm... then the problem becomes:
>> how to boot the X20 into the installation program
>> once the hard disk is again inside the X20...
>> does the X20 have a floppy,
>> or could a usb stick be used, or so?
>>
>> sorry, turns out I have more questions than answers,
>> Axel.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > no sry maybe im explaining my problem wrong :-/ (english problems).
>> > I want to install plan 9, on a hdd i want to pull after install  
>> in my
>> > IBM Thinkpad X20. So i need to take the pakock laptop because my  
>> ibm
>> > dont have a cd drive. And if i want to install with cd and the  
>> pakock
>> > laptop i get stuck
>> >
>> > On 3/14/07, erik quanstrom < quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > i thought i was running on another machine.
>> > > am i wrong?
>> > >
>> > > - erik
>> > >
>>
>


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