From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] booting plan9 cd on thinkpad x23
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:49:02 PST."
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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
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Date: Sun,  7 Dec 2003 13:37:54 -0500
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> 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