ok - this boots and launches into the installer.
I need to back track and free up some disk space, I'll report back
when i've accomplished that
Ben
On Mar 4, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Ben Calvert wrote:
trying now...
On Mar 3, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
You can try /n/sources/contrib/lucho/usbinst9.img.gz.
Just dd it to a USB flash drive and try booting from it.
Thanks,
Lucho
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Ben Calvert <b...@flyingwalrus.net>
wrote:
ya, that would be great
On Mar 1, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
Booting from a USB flash drive is possible (if the BIOS supports
booting from USB), but a bit tricky. I had to make few small
changes
in 9load. I have an image somewhere, if anybody is interested in
trying it I can try to find it.
Thanks,
Lucho
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net>
wrote:
You can install from a local fat partition if you put the
plan9.iso file
in the partition - don't unpack it, just put the single big file
there
and the installer scripts will allow you to chose it as a source
for the
full install.
A bigger problem is you have to boot the installer kernel,
normally this
comes from either a floppy disk or the install CDROM (which
contains a
floppy disk inage). If you don't have either of these you may be
able to
do
some tricks by creating a bootable partition by hand on your
hard disk,
though this is going to get painful.
Maybe somone else can think of some other technique.
-Steve
