From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Ben Calvert To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:37:38 -0800 References: <046fa64ab04b1609f35fc9a62fc135c4@quintile.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab27c8d2-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ya, that would be great On Mar 1, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: > Booting from a USB flash drive is possible (if the BIOS supports > booting from USB), but a bit tricky. I had to make few small changes > in 9load. I have an image somewhere, if anybody is interested in > trying it I can try to find it. > > Thanks, > Lucho > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Steve Simon > wrote: >> You can install from a local fat partition if you put the plan9.iso >> file >> in the partition - don't unpack it, just put the single big file >> there >> and the installer scripts will allow you to chose it as a source >> for the >> full install. >> >> A bigger problem is you have to boot the installer kernel, normally >> this >> comes from either a floppy disk or the install CDROM (which >> contains a >> floppy disk inage). If you don't have either of these you may be >> able to do >> some tricks by creating a bootable partition by hand on your hard >> disk, >> though this is going to get painful. >> >> Maybe somone else can think of some other technique. >> >> -Steve >> >> >> >