On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: [snip]
> If you only have one computer available and have to dual-boot, you can > actually do pretty good with a simple, standalone terminal (this is what > gets installed by default). You can then get an account at one or two of > the public Plan 9 servers and connect from your terminal. Do you mean the Plan 9 terminal that you mention below? Roughly, what does this installation include? > If you have a second computer available that you can devote to Plan 9 (a > Pentium II with 128 MB of RAM will perform admirably), I recommend that > you find the instructions on the wiki for setting up a standalone CPU > server > (http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Configuring_a_standalone_CPU_server/index.html) > and follow them. You will end up with a Plan 9 cpu/auth/file server all > on one box, to which you can then connect from a Plan 9 terminal, 9vx on > Linux, or drawterm on Linux/OS X/Windows. I see! Plan 9 is essential a "server" OS. That's it! That's all! It can't be run as a client and server all on one box. > Personally, I've run at least half a dozen Plan 9 servers over the > years, always installing a full cpu/auth/file server, usually on any PC > I can scrape together out of the parts bin or the loading dock. Then I > just connect from my desktop using drawterm, or I use the Thinkpad with > Plan 9 installed as a terminal. Been there; done that! with FreeBSD. :) > Good luck; Plan 9 is a very fun system. Sounds like it might be. Thanks for the input! -- Duke
