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
> > >
>