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http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/installation_instructions/
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
 
==log==
 
I'm going to log what I do here. Normally I'd do that in a text file and consult it after for my actual writing of a report, but this stuff is already on a wiki, so might as well get the whole process up here.
 
*Set up an old PC.
**Celeron(R) CPU 240 GHz (Prescott ~~2004)
**224 MB DDR(1) RAM
**37.2 GB HDD
**some kind of integrated graphics card I don't even know
 
*Test PC
**It booted up to windows XP
**Everything appears to work as it should.
**Display, mouse, keyboard, CD drive, Ethernet port, etc.
 
*reboot
**insert plan9 CD
**shutdown
**Computer makes horrible highpitched whine (probably 8 year old CRT)
**reboot
 
*Failure
**installation hangs within seconds
**reboot again
 
*Success?
**Plan9 startup
***select install from this CD (confirm USB keyboard works and don't need to find PS/2 Keyboard)
**Stuff flies by faster then I can see
 
*"USE DMA FOR IDE DRIVES [yes] ???
**Google DMA
***"Direct memory access"
**Say Yes
 
*mouseport is (options):
**Say PS2
 
*vgsize[640x480x8]:
**640x480x8
**installer can't do graphical install
**installation guide says to do in text mode, so doing that...
 
*installer asks to config File system
**OPTIONS:
***"Fossil - the new plan9 fileserver"
**or
***"Fossil+venti - Fossil + archival dump server
**Going for the archival dump, because why not?
 
*Parting the disk
**select the main (only) harddrive
**can't do anything...no space
**type ?
***"d name - delete partition"
**delete partition (Bye Windows)
**select empty partition
**partition it
 
*Prepdisk
**"subdivide plan 9 partition"
**The system plans out a "sensible layout"
**9fat 100MB // nvram 512 B // fossil 5.86 GB // arenas -29.33 GB / / isect 1.46 GB //swap 512 MB
**looks good to me, confirm
 
*fmtfossil
**"initialize disks on fossil server"
**SYSTEM CRASHED
 
*restart...again
**Turns out you can resume where you left off more or less.
**redid everything up to telling it to go back into text only mode, went back to spot it froze
 
*fmtfossil
**"initialize disks on fossil server"
**select the fossil location
**says done and goes back to main menu. Not sure what that was about.
 
*mountfs
**Selected the file system
**some directories are created.
 
*configDist or download
**choose a source of the distribution archive or download a distribution archive
**I haven't plugged in an ethernet cable so I do the former.
**I tell it it's local and it goes back to the menu.
 
*mountdist
**since I didn't download an Archive, I've gotta get one from the install disk
**I'm fairly certain it's the CD's root, and the installation says it probably is so I select that.
**The installer goes back to the menu
 
*fmtventi or copydist
** initialize the archive server disks or copy distribution into file system
**select fmtventi
** select the already created area and index partitions.
**it formats the archive, back to menu
 
*copydist
**Starts copying distribution into file system.
**A progress bar chugs along slowly
**finishes in ~10 minutes. No idea what happened in that time, nothing other then progress bar shown.
**back to menu
 
*bootsetup
**"Create a boot floppy or configure hard disk to boot plan 9"
**I THINK I have floppies somewhere, but no, lets configure the hard disk.
**given a list of options to either integrate with a windows boot manage (oops overrode that)
**or to boot from floppy or make plan9 the default.
**choose plan9 as default.
**it tells me it would rather use someone elses boot manager if it exists. Oh well it doesn't you'll have to install your own.
**finishes instantly, reloads menu
 
*Finish
**Only option in menu is to finish and reboot.
**Installer says remove disk and manually turn off computer.
**done install??
 
*first boot
**more text flies by. Asks me to login. Default is none.
That gets me nowhere.
**look at guide, says to log in as glenda. do so.
**Still can't do much, going to have to follow guide
**everything keeps Breaking no matter what I do.
**Switching to a virtual machine. There better be a way to get virtual machines to talk to each other as I want a network.
 
*Redo everything again in a virtual machine
**Thanks to virtual box I can overcome constant crashing and freezing. Process is the same as far as I can tell, but the graphical interface is working now if nothing else. Graphical interface appears to just be same text as before in a '90s era box.
**windows can be moved around, 2 of the windows split the previously viewed text and another seems to show the system doing stuff.
 
*first boot in VM
**log in as "Glenda" apparently the default login user
**load into a fairly simple system of windows.
**stuff for monitoring the system, a help window navigation window.
 
*new user
**Followed the commands on the guide and I think I made a new user. will log in to it later.
 
*edit plan9.ini
**edited plan9.ini to change screen resolution from 600*480 to 800*600
**apparently that worked.
 
*tried to log in as new user instead of default user
**crashed the system, but screen resolution changed.
**if I can get a real new user I'll make another plan9 box and set up a network
 
 
 
 
 
 
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