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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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| http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/faq/index.html
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| http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf
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| http://www.scribd.com/doc/6241731/Plan9-Network-Operating-System
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| ==log==
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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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| *Parting the disk
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| **select the main (only) harddrive
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| **can't do anything...no space
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| **type ?
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| ***"d name - delete partition"
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| **delete partition (Bye Windows)
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| **select empty partition
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| **partition it
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| *Prepdisk
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| **"subdivide plan 9 partition"
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| **The system plans out a "sensible layout"
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| **9fat 100MB // nvram 512 B // fossil 5.86 GB // arenas -29.33 GB / / isect 1.46 GB //swap 512 MB
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| **looks good to me, confirm
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| *fmtfossil
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| **"initialize disks on fossil server"
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| **SYSTEM CRASHED
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| *restart...again
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| **Turns out you can resume where you left off more or less.
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| **redid everything up to telling it to go back into text only mode, went back to spot it froze
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| *fmtfossil
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| **"initialize disks on fossil server"
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| **select the fossil location
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| **says done and goes back to main menu. Not sure what that was about.
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| *mountfs
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| **Selected the file system
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| **some directories are created.
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| *configDist or download
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| **choose a source of the distribution archive or download a distribution archive
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| **I haven't plugged in an ethernet cable so I do the former.
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| **I tell it it's local and it goes back to the menu.
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| *mountdist
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| **since I didn't download an Archive, I've gotta get one from the install disk
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| **I'm fairly certain it's the CD's root, and the installation says it probably is so I select that.
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| **The installer goes back to the menu
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| *fmtventi or copydist
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| ** initialize the archive server disks or copy distribution into file system
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| **select fmtventi
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| ** select the already created area and index partitions.
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| **it formats the archive, back to menu
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| *copydist
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| **Starts copying distribution into file system.
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| **A progress bar chugs along slowly
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| **finishes in ~10 minutes. No idea what happened in that time, nothing other then progress bar shown.
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| **back to menu
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| *bootsetup
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| **"Create a boot floppy or configure hard disk to boot plan 9"
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| **I THINK I have floppies somewhere, but no, lets configure the hard disk.
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| **given a list of options to either integrate with a windows boot manage (oops overrode that)
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| **or to boot from floppy or make plan9 the default.
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| **choose plan9 as default.
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| **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.
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| **finishes instantly, reloads menu
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| *Finish
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| **Only option in menu is to finish and reboot.
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| **Installer says remove disk and manually turn off computer.
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| **done install??
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| *first boot
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| **more text flies by. Asks me to login. Default is none.
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| That gets me nowhere.
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| **look at guide, says to log in as glenda. do so.
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| **Still can't do much, going to have to follow guide
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| **everything keeps Breaking no matter what I do.
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| **Switching to a virtual machine. There better be a way to get virtual machines to talk to each other as I want a network.
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| *Redo everything again in a virtual machine
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| **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.
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| **windows can be moved around, 2 of the windows split the previously viewed text and another seems to show the system doing stuff.
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| *first boot in VM
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| **log in as "Glenda" apparently the default login user
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| **load into a fairly simple system of windows.
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| **stuff for monitoring the system, a help window navigation window.
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| *new user
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| **Followed the commands on the guide and I think I made a new user. will log in to it later.
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| *edit plan9.ini
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| **edited plan9.ini to change screen resolution from 600*480 to 800*600
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| **apparently that worked.
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| *tried to log in as new user instead of default user
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| **sort of worked, can't get the windows back but I'm somewhere at least.
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| **going to try to set up another box as a terminal to the main box.
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| *setting up a terminal
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| **does not appear to be easy. at all. I'm not even sure if I'll get a terminal, but I'd be content if two machines could talk.
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| ==Actual discussion and whatever else==
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