From: "Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] installing Plan 9 under Microsoft's free Virtual PC?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:39:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f3897940607241139r597afc4dr2f34cf0bba81f3eb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0A14CAC2-4DAF-4884-B0D3-5C06F9A7E75D@lanl.gov>
> the installation should have asked you whether you want dma turned
> on, if you said "yes" and it was still slow then the chipset is
> probably not supported. with dma on the installation copies all files
> in less than 5 minutes on reasonable hardware.
Back when I have been installing it didn't ask anything about DMA.
I'll check if I can spare the bandwith to download newest ISO...
> when you get to it, run 'pci' and send it to the list. it may turn
> out that we just need to add the did/vid pair to sdata.c...
>
I don't know about Xen support (it seems that nobody touched it since
wiki article),
but my chipset (on both machines) is i440bx - rather supported IIRC :)
--
Paul Lasek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-24 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-24 16:41 Andrew Hudson
2006-07-24 17:14 ` elbing
2006-07-24 18:21 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 18:24 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-24 18:28 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 18:32 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-24 19:11 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 18:32 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-24 18:39 ` Paweł Lasek [this message]
2006-07-24 18:41 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-24 18:45 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 19:03 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 19:30 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 19:42 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 20:24 ` Richard Miller
2006-07-24 20:30 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-25 10:31 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-24 18:34 Andrew Hudson
2006-07-24 19:34 ` Álvaro Jurado Cuevas
2006-07-24 22:32 ` Sascha Retzki
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