> I'm planning to install Plan 9 on a spare i386 machine, a Dell Inspiron Mini > 9 netbook. > > I have googled a bit and my best bet seems to be the 9atom distribution. > However > the netbook doesn't have a CDROM and I would habe to buy an USB-CDROM-Drive. > Thus my questions: > * Has anyone tried Plan 9 on this or similar hardware? > * Can Plan 9 boot of an USB-CDROM?
the 9atom installer is a little too dumb to boot from a usb-cdrom. i think what you'd really want is a bootable usb key. does that sound right? i don't think that will be too hard to build, if you think that'll do the trick. - erik
