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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a litle note on my dead vmware system
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:42:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405192041000.31922-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0405192036400.14318@pali.cps.cmich.edu>

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Ishwar Rattan wrote:

> I reported a problem with installation of plan9 using the
> physical cdrom under vmware-4.0 workstation. I was suggested
> that I connect cdrom to plan9.iso file.
>
> Now it does not boot at all, it gets stuck at boot from:
> prompt.
>

the occasional problem I have had occurs when there is a second IDE
controller. Sometimes turning of the secondary IDE has helped get the
thing to boot.

Overall, vmware 4.0 seems like more glitz and eye candy and no substantive
improvement in capability, reliability, or performance over 3.0.

ron



      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-20  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-18  4:48 ron minnich
2004-05-18 22:08 ` vic zandy
2004-05-19  3:42   ` ron minnich
2004-05-19 11:58     ` vic zandy
2004-05-19 14:17       ` ron minnich
2004-05-19 13:35   ` Ishwar Rattan
2004-05-19 14:11     ` vic zandy
2004-05-19 14:20     ` ron minnich
2004-05-20  0:44   ` Ishwar Rattan
2004-05-20  1:21     ` Russ Cox
2004-05-20  1:30       ` Ishwar Rattan
2004-05-20  2:44         ` ron minnich
2004-05-20  2:58           ` Russ Cox
2004-05-20 12:36           ` Ishwar Rattan
2004-05-24 20:35             ` [9fans] A question on fossil-FS?? Ishwar Rattan
2004-05-24 21:19               ` Russ Cox
2004-05-25  3:29                 ` Ishwar Rattan
2004-05-25  3:34                   ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-21 18:31         ` [9fans] pla9.bell-labs.com->vmware.zip Ishwar Rattan
2004-05-21 19:00           ` Russ Cox
2004-05-21 19:23           ` vic zandy
2004-05-21 19:43             ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-22  1:07               ` ron minnich
2004-05-22  1:06             ` ron minnich
2004-05-22  1:04           ` ron minnich
2004-05-20  2:43       ` [9fans] a litle note on my dead vmware system ron minnich
2004-05-20  2:42     ` ron minnich [this message]

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