[9fans] Installation woes

[fernanbolando@mailc.net (Fernan Bolando)]

For what its worth.

My install on a real hardware was also extremely slow, but after  i enabled
dma it is very much usable. venti and everything
I use virtualbox on several machines including a macbook white and and an
old hp dc7700 and its also very much usable also.
another thing to note is i am using erik's 9atom distro for all my
installation.

There is also 9vx which i used before. If you only need the plan9 tools then
plan9port is an easy way to get them.


On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:14 AM, John Preston <gizmoguy1 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I've spent the past couple of days trying to get some form of P9
> installation up, but I've had a lot of trouble.
>
> The first thing I tried (and the installation that would be ideal for
> me, if anyone can help) was installing on an ASUS Eee PC netbook. It
> doesn't have a CD drive, and I don't have a USB CD drive, so I tried
> dd-ing the ISO onto a USB stick under Linux, but this wouldn't boot. Any
> ideas why? Does anyone have any experience with P9 USB installation media?
>
> Afterwards, I tried VirtualBox, which gave me the following error:
>
> panic: assert failed at 0xf018d652
>
> I quickly moved on to QEMU, which worked but had ridiculously slow disk
> throughput (the installation would have taken at least 3 hours). This is
> on a Dell mini 10 netbook with an Intel Atom so it's bound to be slow,
> but I've had much higher transfer speeds with other guest OSes.
>
> VMware Player (using configuration made with EasyVMX) gave me a black
> screen when rio loaded, and Bochs worked but was even slower than QEMU.
> Can anyone offer me any help with:
>
> 1. making USB installation media;
> 2. speeding up QEMU or Bochs; or
> 3. getting VirtualBox or VMware Player working?
>
> I haven't tried any pre-built images as I would very much like to go
> through the installation process myself.
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> Yours Sincerely,
> John Preston
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