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==sources?==
=Discussion=
 
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
 
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/faq/index.html
 
http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf
 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6241731/Plan9-Network-Operating-System
 
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/
 
==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
**sort of worked, can't get the windows back but I'm somewhere at least.
**going to try to set up another box as a terminal to the main box.
 
*setting up a terminal
**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.
**Yeah I'm probably not going to be able to do that. This report is going to be more indepth information about plan9 then about implementation at this point. oh well there's still plenty to talk about.
 
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