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
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