When you boot the live cd you'll have a pretty good idea whether your system is supported -- if things are OK you'll get to a gui with installation information. You'll be able to figure out whether you want to try it or not even before you get to the hard drive partitioning :)
There's no 'other plan9', WYSIWYG. There's another installation cd with slightly more supported hardware called '9atom'. You can try that if the current one doesn't work. Failing the CD path, you can download 9vx and try the full Plan 9 environment hosted on your normal OS. cheers On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@ml1.net> wrote: > Hello 9fans ... > > I'm _totally_ new to Plan9! Two days ago I had never heard of > it. Yesterday I DLed the LiveCD - now I want to know more. > > The closest I've come to such an OS as Plan9, is the Native Oberon > OS. I have a partition which I can overwrite. Does the LiveCD > installation process allow me to abort the process if I see that > things are not proceeding smoothly (like I need to gather some > hardware info, etc)? > > Should I be installing Lucent's Plan9 or a more recent derivative, if > any? > > Is there software available for this OS? Or do I have to write my own? > > What is the primary development language for Plan9? C? What languages > have been ported to Plan9? > > Where are the best docs? TIA... > > -- > Duke Normandin > Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada > >
