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| http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
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| http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/installation_instructions/
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
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| 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.
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| *Set up an old PC.
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| **Celeron(R) CPU 240 GHz (Prescott ~~2004)
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| **224 MB DDR(1) RAM
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| **37.2 GB HDD
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| **some kind of integrated graphics card I don't even know
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| *Test PC
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| **It booted up to windows XP
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| **Everything appears to work as it should.
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| **Display, mouse, keyboard, CD drive, Ethernet port, etc.
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| *reboot
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| **insert plan9 CD
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| **shutdown
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| **Computer makes horrible highpitched whine (probably 8 year old CRT)
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| **reboot
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| *Failure
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| **installation hangs within seconds
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| **reboot again
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| *Success?
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| **Plan9 startup
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| ***select install from this CD (confirm USB keyboard works and don't need to find PS/2 Keyboard)
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| **Stuff flies by faster then I can see
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| *"USE DMA FOR IDE DRIVES [yes] ???
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| **Google DMA
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| ***"Direct memory access"
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| **Say Yes
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| *mouseport is (options):
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| **Say PS2
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| *vgsize[640x480x8]:
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| **640x480x8
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| **installer can't do graphical install
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| **installation guide says to do in text mode, so doing that...
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| *installer asks to config File system
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| **OPTIONS:
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| ***"Fossil - the new plan9 fileserver"
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| **or
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| ***"Fossil+venti - Fossil + archival dump server
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| **Going for the archival dump, because why not?
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