A suggestion (if slightly torturous).
Use qemu (say under a linux live cd) to install  to that hard drive.
Then pop the hard drive into the other laptop and hope plan 9 works  
on it.

On 14 Mar 2007, at 14:43, Moritz Lutz wrote:

> no sry maybe im explaining my problem wrong :-/ (english problems).
> I want to install plan 9, on a hdd i want to pull after install in my
> IBM Thinkpad X20. So i need to take the pakock laptop because my ibm
> dont have a cd drive. And if i want to install with cd and the pakock
> laptop i get stuck
>
> On 3/14/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> i thought i was running on another machine.
> am i wrong?
>
> - erik
>