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