From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:24:22 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <3f3160fb4df6099ef18f8c91260bd6f2@brasstown.quanstro.net> <87176ad7-484a-4a9a-afad-d63a8798dd54@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom Topicbox-Message-UUID: fe2e7d48-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > >> I have that same netbook. One of your big challenges will probably be > >> getting the CDROM to boot in a machine without a CDROM drive. There > >> exist bootable images for USB sticks which contain a full fossil > >> filesystem; you can start the installation from there. In fact, I had > >> made a 32-bit bootable USB stick for Nix about a year ago and included > >> a script to start the installation, I'll see if I can find it. > > > > I see. Thank you guys, been waiting to try Plan 9 since a while, but I though my hardware was incapable of booting and running it. In fact I wanted to buy a Raspberry Pi to install Miller's build... Although I will get sooner or later a Rpi haha. > > > > What file system do I need to install Plan 9? Fat32? NTFS? Ext2/3/4? > > Fossil, cwfs, or hjfs. perhaps i'm being literal when it's not called for, but i don't see this answers the question. to *install* plan 9, you should be fine with a bare machine plus the sd card or iso. - erik