Re: [9fans] Laptop advice

["John Waters" <jcwjr215@gmail.com>]

I have an LG A1 "Dual Express" notebook that I bought here in Riyadh a
few months ago.
It also has a PRPD (pseudorandom pointing device) and it has nearly
driven me to the point of spazzing out on several occasions.  Other
than that it is a great litte laptop. Since it has an external USB
device I have not loaded plan9 on bare metal, I run it on VMWare
workstation 6.

Which brings me to a question:
Does anyone have trouble booting new installations of plan9 on
vmware6? I turn off hwaccel, load the os, and after the install
completes and the system reboots it just hangs. I am still using
systems built on Mahmoud's vmware image (for which I am indeed
grateful).

I would very much like to do clean installs on vmware, especially
since I am evangelizing plan9 as much as possible here in Saudi and
using it to teach my trainees about operating systems.

John

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:01 AM,  <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>> 3 buttons and a nipple not a touchpad
>>
>> no Windows key :)
>
> These are concrete assets.  I know at least one other laptop user (I
> have an old Compac Presario 900, he has a newer Acer or some such)
> that manages to trigger the touchpad without touching it.  Very, very
> annoying.  As for the Windows key, on the limited keyboard real estate
> of a laptop, it is a serious waste.
>
> ++L
>
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