From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20071210185151.E89781E8C5C@holo.morphisms.net> References: <20071210185151.E89781E8C5C@holo.morphisms.net> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:54:28 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> From: "Lawrence E. Bakst" Subject: Re: [9fans] Parallels/Mac Build 5582 almost works Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 14043522-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >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.