9fans archive / 2000 / 07 / 52 / prev next From: Darrell <darrell@fla...> Subject: [9fans] plan 9 not booting on 486 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:36:05 GMT I downloaded plan 9 onto a floppy and started to install it onto a 486. it showed that it was in fact Plan 9, and then reboot. Here's what it read: PBS... Plan 9 from Bell Labs Machine is a 486DX IBM PS/ValuePoint with Tseng ET4000, 24 MB of RAM, NE2000, and about 500MB hard drive. The boot disk is configured for 8 bit, generic 640x480 tube, 640x480 resolution, auto settings on the ethernet card.