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> I have many copies of Plan 9 from various places over the years that I've 
> tried out.
> In the case of the original plan9.iso I was able to get it to boot into 
> Glenda as a live-user, and I am able to complete the installation. However, 
> there is always a corrupt MBR when I try to boot it up.
> 

Plan 9 4th edition is not expected to boot on x86...
I can pxe boot it on my HP 8300 elite (core i5).

> I've successfully booted 9-front on VMware as well, and noticed that the 
> Glenda logo window is missing. I honestly don't know the purpose of this 
> window, but it displays the time/date and shows the Glenda character. That 
> bothered me because to me, I wanted to demonstrate/experience the real Plan 9.
> 

That window is running faces -i, which read the mail box and show the
faces of people.  Right clicking a face will open the email!
If you have subscribed for 9fans emails and connect to gmail's imap
server, you will see the faces of everyone here (except me).

9front might have modified the installer

> I now have 9 Legacy images, and I'm going to give them a go as I THINK these 
> are now the "vanilla" Plan 9 post Vita-Nuova ownership. Is that correct? Is 
> it safe to assume 9-Legacy essentially replaces what I assume are the 4th 
> edition Plan 9 images?
> 

Vita Nuova owns Inferno
Just use 9legacy, it is stable.
There is another iso image which contain Geoff's tree - perhaps less
stable, moving faster, does not include git and all the bug fixes, and
have refused changes to be usable in openbsd vmm.

Also - for the more experienced, how to get rid of the doasm notfound
and unbalanced PUSH/POP errors when the list of opcodes changes?  Even
compiling 6[acl] on another architecture does not work for me now.

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