On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:04:14PM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> VPC can't boot the installation CD image. I never did figure out
> why. You need to download the floppy boot image, and boot with both
> it and the CD image attached. After the install is complete you can
> toss the floppy image.
I've gotten Virtual PC on the Mac to boot from the Plan 9 installation
CD, but I don't remember how. It was strange, however it worked.
It seems, however, that they've modified virtual PC to intercept the
middle mouse button and map it to button 1, so it's sort of useless for
Plan 9. Also, the virtualized disk access to horribly slow; I'm waiting
for qemu to get up to snuff (or just to get an Intel based Mac and
dual boot, which perhaps shouldn't be too hard).
- Dan C.
