Hoping Andrey does not mind me attaching this... Seriously, why to seek for a different boot source when cdboot works? Boot it, run it, learn it... 2010/11/14 Eugene Gorodinsky : > Hi list! > I've been trying to install plan9 today, on a qemu vm. When trying to > install from local the installer seems unable to find quite a few files in > plan9's src directory. It seems there's some problem with the cdimage. I > tried booting from the floppy image, but got stuck at the point where one > needs to enter boot media (it seems I need something of the form fd0!file, > but I have no idea what file needs to be specified) > Also, when trying to install in qemu from net, the installer cannot > autoconfigure network from dhcp, and doesn't work on manual configuration > either (I tried 10.0.2.1 for gateway, 10.0.2.15 for ip and 255.255.255.0 for > netmask, which should be the correct qemu settings). The boot prompt > indicates that the virtual network card has been found, though. Has anyone > tried to do a netinstall of plan9 in qemu? -- - Yaroslav