yes, I dual booted Plan 9 and windows for years, it worked great, just boot the cdroom and follow the instructions, choose the empty space or partition from the installer, etc. you'll end up with a standalone terminal, no need for a cpu server in the beginning, later you could just rebuild the kernel and turn it into a cpu server.
if the other OS is linux and uses grub, it'll need an entry for Plan 9 similar to the windows entries, (chainload or something) if it's windows, it's a bit more hacking booting Plan 9 from vista's loader but totally doable ah, and make sure your nic is supported. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@ml1.net> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@ml1.net> wrote: >> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> > >> >> if the intent is to get a full understanding of what an operational >> >> Plan 9 environment is like, using VMware or Qemu to create VM's for >> >> various roles (auth/cpu, fs, term) connected by a virtual network is >> >> an excellent option. I've successfully used this setup for >> >> experimenting/testing and for demos. >> > >> > Sounds like _a lot_ of fooling around! I've set up numerous *nix LANs >> > before, but don't have one at the moment. How much memory would a >> > machine need to set up all those VMs? > >> depending on the host os, 1g is sufficient. i've never needed to use >> more than 256M for plan9 vm's. > > The box that I'd be using has a total of 1G RAM. If I do this, it > would be on top of Xubuntu 10.10. But the VM thing doesn't really > appeal to me. > > I could run a headless box as a Plan9 auth/cpu, fs server. Then, if I > want to this Plan9 server, is there a minimum Plan9 install that I > could put on the spare partition that I have? Kinda like what I had > for a long time: a 486DX running FreeBSD as a mailserver; another > running as a webserver; another couple running primary and slave > nameservers; and one dual-homed FreeBSD box routing and doing > firewall/natd. Had a couple of Linux and FreeBSD workstations hung on > this LAN. Those 486DX _never_ hiccuped! (Thank you UPS!!!) > > The above sounds like a job for Plan9 :) But my point is - is that I > don't need to set up a LAN to enjoy Linux or FreeBSD. Can I use Plan9 > standalone in a dedicated partition? > -- > Duke > > -- Federico G. Benavento
