Talk:DistOS-2011W Plan 9

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

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