On Jan 4, 2013, at 15:24, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>>>> I have that same netbook. One of your big challenges will probably be >>>> getting the CDROM to boot in a machine without a CDROM drive. There >>>> exist bootable images for USB sticks which contain a full fossil >>>> filesystem; you can start the installation from there. In fact, I had >>>> made a 32-bit bootable USB stick for Nix about a year ago and included >>>> a script to start the installation, I'll see if I can find it. >>> >>> I see. Thank you guys, been waiting to try Plan 9 since a while, but I >>> though my hardware was incapable of booting and running it. In fact I >>> wanted to buy a Raspberry Pi to install Miller's build... Although I will >>> get sooner or later a Rpi haha. >>> >>> What file system do I need to install Plan 9? Fat32? NTFS? Ext2/3/4? >> >> Fossil, cwfs, or hjfs. > > perhaps i'm being literal when it's not called for, but i don't > see this answers the question. > > to *install* plan 9, you should be fine with a bare machine > plus the sd card or iso. > > - erik Well he asked for the filesystem. I gave him the filesystems. >
