From: Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:15:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1101130811080.4272@fryrpg-zna> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikBrr9bVk7w5S5EhQOCddk5h8qF8ohZh+bLRV1p@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
> When you boot the live cd you'll have a pretty good idea whether your
> system is supported -- if things are OK you'll get to a gui with
> installation information. You'll be able to figure out whether you
> want to try it or not even before you get to the hard drive
> partitioning :)
Excellent..
> There's no 'other plan9', WYSIWYG. There's another installation cd
> with slightly more supported hardware called '9atom'. You can try that
> if the current one doesn't work.
It works. I've had Plan9 up and running from the Live CD.
> Failing the CD path, you can download 9vx and try the full Plan 9
> environment hosted on your normal OS.
That's great! I have "Native Oberon for Linux" running the very same
way. Best of both worlds - at a bit of a price though. :) Thanks for
the input.
--
Duke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-13 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-13 14:30 Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 14:38 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-01-13 15:15 ` Duke Normandin [this message]
2011-01-13 14:43 ` Jacob Todd
2011-01-13 15:10 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 15:12 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-13 15:33 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 15:40 ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-01-13 15:44 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-13 15:59 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 15:42 ` Tassilo Philipp
2011-01-14 0:05 ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-01-14 0:31 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 16:06 Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 16:51 ` Tassilo Philipp
2011-01-13 18:21 ` Duke Normandin
[not found] ` <dcb4736d2e43c99bcf89af37a9d0addd-EhVcXl1ERwBcRx0AAAwEUR8fGQlVS19>
2011-01-13 16:56 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-13 17:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-01-13 17:48 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-13 18:20 ` Duke Normandin
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