Hi Richard! Talking about digital archaeology I tried to install Plan 9 from a cd on my Dell 500H (something). That laptop came with an attachable floppy drive, cd rom and a cdrw but it was as I remembered the drives are all dead but the machine is loaded with Watt OS 5. A linux distro that has a pretty small footprint as regards to memory. Originally it had a whooping 128 MB of RAM and I installed another 128 MB RAM module so it has now 256 MB of ram. It would be nice to install Plan 9 on it but the only way into the machine now it ethernet. Would that be possible? (I guess so but I haven't found any docs on it) So, then how? If you have any ideas I would be delighted to hear since it's a shame that a so wellbuilt laptop should just be lying there unused.
Yours Truly, Mats 2014-11-08 10:42 GMT+01:00, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com>: >> curious choise. not that you'd want to use this anymore, but ... >> ... >> flop=/dev/fd0disk > > Actually a couple of weeks ago I had occasion to use not only /rc/bin/a: > but /rc/bin/b: to do a bit of digital archaeology (current plan 9 kernel > still supports the 5¼" floppy drive on my old pentium pro machine). > > >
