Talk:DistOS-2011W Plan 9

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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
    • Going for the archival dump, because why not?
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