On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: [snip]
> Yes. You just stick in the CD and do a basic install. When you're > done, you get all the programs that ship with Plan 9; it's very > usable, you can connect to various Plan 9 servers or FTP to move > files around and stuff. I see! I mis-understood what you meant by "Plan 9 terminal". I thought that the Plan 9 Live CD gave you a choice of either installing the Plan 9 server or a Plan 9 client/terminal. I now see that that there are terminals available on various OSes to connect to a Plan 9 server. Turns out that I can install `drawterm' version 20091003-1 directly from my Xubuntu box - using Synaptic. Didn't see `9vx' though. I'll have to Google it. I did see that `wily', an Linux ACME clone is available. Guess what I did? :) [snip] > You *can* sit down at a cpu/auth/file server and work, but it's just not > very usable--consider it an administration console. Got it! [snip] > I think you mentioned in another message that you have a headless box > available; I recommend temporarily hooking that up to a monitor, > keyboard, and mouse, then installing a standalone cpu/auth/file server > on it. Once you're done, you can try using drawterm from Windows or > Linux or whatever you have to test the configuration. I just checked - it's a 166Mhz P-I with 98M RAM and 4.5G HDD. Made a good dedicated mail server. May not have enough gonads for a Plan 9 server though. > If the configuration is good, you can go ahead and install Plan 9 as > a terminal on your spare partition, or just keep working from > drawterm, which is what I usually do (the graphics performance is > better). So I can install Plan 9 as a client/terminal from the CD! But I wouldn't waste a 30G BSD partition on that. Which is where I was going to put Plan 9. I might just wipe the 4G Native Oberon partition, and put the Plan 9 terminal there. Although this box that I use multi-boots, why bother installing Plan 9 as a terminal on a dedicated partition, when I can connect from Linux using `drawterm' or `9vx'. Thanks for the input! -- Duke
