From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:15:15 -0700 From: Duke Normandin To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi .. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9601af2a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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