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
> >