From: Abhey Shah <as234@york.ac.uk>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Problem installing plan9
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:43:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A0A4D51E-E5C8-49A1-8045-BE09349521C7@york.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa11032f0703140928o3d749872sce7a7ff6f4dee3fc@mail.gmail.com>
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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
qemu -boot c -cdrom plan9.img -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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-14 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-14 12:10 Moritz Lutz
2007-03-14 13:48 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-14 13:56 ` Moritz Lutz
2007-03-14 14:01 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-14 14:07 ` Moritz Lutz
2007-03-14 14:11 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-14 14:43 ` Moritz Lutz
2007-03-14 15:01 ` Abhey Shah
2007-03-14 16:24 ` Axel Belinfante
2007-03-14 16:28 ` Moritz Lutz
2007-03-14 16:43 ` Abhey Shah [this message]
2007-03-14 16:50 ` Abhey Shah
2007-03-14 16:55 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-14 17:27 ` Moritz Lutz
2007-03-14 14:02 ` Alexandr Babič
2007-03-14 14:46 ` Steve Simon
2007-03-14 14:52 ` Moritz Lutz
2007-03-14 14:54 ` Alexandr Babič
2007-03-14 14:56 ` Steve Simon
2007-03-14 16:06 Alexandr Babič
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