From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <3f3160fb4df6099ef18f8c91260bd6f2@brasstown.quanstro.net> <87176ad7-484a-4a9a-afad-d63a8798dd54@googlegroups.com> From: Matthew Veety Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <89D112C8-8582-4353-857C-3257550A4755@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:55:02 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom Topicbox-Message-UUID: fe510cfa-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jan 4, 2013, at 15:24, erik quanstrom wrote: >>>> I have that same netbook. One of your big challenges will probably be >>>> getting the CDROM to boot in a machine without a CDROM drive. There >>>> exist bootable images for USB sticks which contain a full fossil >>>> filesystem; you can start the installation from there. In fact, I had >>>> made a 32-bit bootable USB stick for Nix about a year ago and included >>>> a script to start the installation, I'll see if I can find it. >>>=20 >>> I see. Thank you guys, been waiting to try Plan 9 since a while, but I t= hough my hardware was incapable of booting and running it. In fact I wanted t= o buy a Raspberry Pi to install Miller's build... Although I will get sooner= or later a Rpi haha. >>>=20 >>> What file system do I need to install Plan 9? Fat32? NTFS? Ext2/3/4? >>=20 >> Fossil, cwfs, or hjfs. >=20 > perhaps i'm being literal when it's not called for, but i don't > see this answers the question. >=20 > to *install* plan 9, you should be fine with a bare machine > plus the sd card or iso. >=20 > - erik Well he asked for the filesystem. I gave him the filesystems.=20 >=20