From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:55:00 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 on qemu
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you can use

qemu -cdrom plan9.iso -hda big-empty-file -boot d

to boot the install cd and then install onto the big
empty file.  but a real hard disk image would work
just as well.


On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:43:39 +1100, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did I miss the qemu post that says how to invoke qemu with plan9?
> I guess more specifically what do I use for the image file?
> If it's simply the floppy image, which russ' message might seem
> to imply, then I'll go back to sleep.
> 
> Hope you all had a good Solstice.
> 
> brucee
>