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Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:42:22 -0600
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
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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