From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] booting plan9 cd on thinkpad x23
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:37:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AT3n2-0000fe-Vy@t40.swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:49:02 PST." <20031207164902.80560.qmail@web60506.mail.yahoo.com>
> I wanted to try out plan9 on my newly bought thinkpad
> x23. It is light and comes with absolutely no disk or
> cd drives. I use an USB connected cdrom writer when I
> want to boot something.
>
> Apparantly the plan9.iso cannot recognize the storage
> via USB. Does anybody know a remedy for this? I
unfortunately, i don't think we can handle the usb cd drives.
if you have a usb floppy drive you could download a boot
disk and do a network install. (we don't really handle the
usb floppy drives either but the bios tricks us enough that
it's okay.)
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-07 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-07 16:49 Dennis D. Jensen
2003-12-07 18:37 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2003-12-08 16:31 ` John Stalker
2003-12-08 23:46 ` Dennis D. Jensen
2003-12-09 1:50 ` John Stalker
2003-12-09 9:34 ` Dennis D. Jensen
2003-12-14 1:59 ` Dennis D. Jensen
2003-12-14 2:22 ` John Stalker
2003-12-14 15:29 ` Russ Cox
2003-12-14 4:34 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-14 17:18 ` Dennis D. Jensen
2003-12-14 22:01 ` John Stalker
2003-12-16 14:20 ` John Stalker
2003-12-16 17:08 ` Dennis D. Jensen
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