From: "Lawrence E. Bakst" <ml@iridescent.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Parallels/Mac Build 5582 almost works
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:54:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p06240819c3835757abe8@[192.168.0.7]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071210185151.E89781E8C5C@holo.morphisms.net>
>lawrence:
>> 1. Gee I really thought the plan9 installer complained
>> that my MBR would not work with a 2 GB FAT32 partition
>> followed by the plan9 partition, and offered to install a
>> new one. My memory could be faulty. I have since
>> switched to a 1 GB FAT32 to work around that.
>
>Installing the Plan 9 MBR should have been able to work
>with a Plan 9 partition many GB into the disk. Without poking
>at your system I can't answer why it didn't in your case.
>
>Russ
It was running under Parallels. It takes about an hour to do a "virtual" install of plan9 on my dual 2.6 GHz system, but that was will all acceleration off. Once I get a 3 button mouse if I have time I will try it again, perhaps with acceleration on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-10 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-09 8:12 Lawrence E. Bakst
2007-12-09 12:23 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-09 18:40 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
2007-12-09 23:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-12-10 18:52 ` Russ Cox
2007-12-10 20:54 ` Lawrence E. Bakst [this message]
[not found] ` <p0624080fc381e5ae13fa@192.168.0.7>
2007-12-10 0:29 ` David Leimbach
2007-12-10 1:49 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
2007-12-10 4:19 Joshua Wood
2007-12-10 19:38 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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