Hoping Andrey does not mind me attaching this...
Seriously, why to seek for a different boot source when cdboot works?
Boot it, run it, learn it...

2010/11/14 Eugene Gorodinsky <e.gorodin...@gmail.com>:
> Hi list!
> I've been trying to install plan9 today, on a qemu vm. When trying to
> install from local the installer seems unable to find quite a few files in
> plan9's src directory. It seems there's some problem with the cdimage. I
> tried booting from the floppy image, but got stuck at the point where one
> needs to enter boot media (it seems I need something of the form fd0!file,
> but I have no idea what file needs to be specified)
> Also, when trying to install in qemu from net, the installer cannot
> autoconfigure network from dhcp, and doesn't work on manual configuration
> either (I tried 10.0.2.1 for gateway, 10.0.2.15 for ip and 255.255.255.0 for
> netmask, which should be the correct qemu settings). The boot prompt
> indicates that the virtual network card has been found, though. Has anyone
> tried to do a netinstall of plan9 in qemu?



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- Yaroslav

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